"Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep."

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Source : "Helen Gurley Brown: how to have it all" by Sali Hughes, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2012.

Helen Gurley Brown

#Successful Quotes #Careers Quotes #Envy Quotes

“God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it.”
“Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.”
“I was so anxious to grow up, and now I'm wishing I was still a kid.”
“Only your friends steal your books.”
“We say that the sun is behind the clouds, but actually it is not the sun but the city from which we view it that is behind the clouds. If we realized that the sun is never behind the clouds we might have a different attitude toward the whole thing.”
“For an intelligent estimate of your technique go to another artist working in the same medium.”
“I dont know whether its a fear of standing up, but I really love sitting at the table and blabbing. I learn so much that way, and I think I get free that way, free from inhibition and fears.”
“The point is to create a system where individuals don't work simply for money or personal gain but to support the planet and its inhabitants in entering the next stage of evolutionary progression.”

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