Top 58 Helen Gurley Brown Quotes
#1. Charm is the next best asset after looks and brains - and can almost make up for looks.
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#3. I think I'm a fairly average person, I think I have only a medium IQ. I didn't go to college, obviously.
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#4. Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.
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#5. It's unrealistic to think you can only have one good product. People are not that poor. They can buy what they want.
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#6. I just had the idea that all the covergirls should be gorgeous, and not just interesting, not beautiful in an offbeat or exotic way, just plain yummy gorgeous.
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#8. Never throw anything good away
real wool, pure silk. Put it away and wait for it to come back.
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#9. Some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass of mead and three festivals a year.
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#10. The faster you get back to people, the less brilliant you have to be,
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#11. You want to write a book for so many reasons ... The main reason ... is because it will make you well-known and beloved and popular and successful and famous and respected. You also write ... to make money, but that motivation is not first on the list.
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#12. If you're a little mouseburger, come with me. I was a mouseburger and I will help you. You're so much more wonderful than you think. Cosmopolitan is shot full of this stuff although outsiders don't realize it. It is, in its way, an inspiration magazine.
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#13. If I had to choose between sex and food, I would choose food, but I'd choose sex over nearly everything else.
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#14. When you meet a man, don't you always idly wonder what he'd be like in bed? I do.
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#15. Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing everyone a disservice by perpetuating the idea that beautiful is better than plain, because having done everything just about that you can do, sparing no expense, and not effort, to become better looking, I know that only so much can be done.
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#16. Do what's in front of you as well as possible. Keep going until you realize what you're best at.
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#17. The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.
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#18. My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
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#20. We are told to value ourselves without feedback, but if nobody is making a pass at you or trying to take you to Bermuda, how are you supposed to feel? Confident?
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#21. Now it's somewhat easier for a woman to be a film producer or something like that if she wants, though it's not that easy. But to be any kind of successful woman took a lot of doing in the '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s ... in the '70s it's getting simpler.
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#22. Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.
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#24. Every morning when I'm thrashing around on the floor doing my solid hour of heavy exercises I'm not really doing that for anyone but myself. It makes me feel good.
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#25. Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.
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#27. Trying to describe a good marriage is like trying to describe your adrenal glands. You know they're in there functioning but you don't really understand how they work.
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#28. One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with.
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#29. You know you can't hope yourself a better life - you must take yourself there.
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#30. There are not that many people who know how to edit. It's a funny tiny little obscure talent but it's very special. You have to have the feeling of popular taste.
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#32. My own philosophy is if you're not having sex, you're finished. It separates the girls from the old people.
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#33. Sex is one of the three best things out there, and I don't even know what the other two are.
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#34. Good posture is the one most important thing anybody can do now to look better.
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#35. Two warm bodies and one cold bottle of champagne will produce something more wonderful than would happen without the champagne.
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#36. Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.
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#37. Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
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#40. There is no better way to get to know someone than to have an affair ... it can save years of lunches.
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#41. After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
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#42. People never get tired of looking at beautiful pictures of gorgeous girls.
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#43. Never expect anybody - except possibly your analyst - to be as thrilled about your sex life as you are.
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#44. Money,if it does not bring you happiness,it will atleast help you be miserable in comfort
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#45. I think a single woman's biggest problem is coping with the people who are trying to marry her off!
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#49. I care. I care a lot. I think of Cosmopolitan all day, and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright, caring and anxiety.
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#50. I guess I'm a survivor. There are many of us survivors and any successful woman of my age has somewhat of that in her.
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#51. I guess anyone with a beautiful body, man or woman, loves to be looked at, but to admit such a thing is a little rough at times. That's why it's hard to get people to pose.
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#52. A man likes to sleep with a brainy girl. She's a challenge. If he makes good with her, he figures he must be good himself.
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#53. Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.
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#54. Don't do small stuff early in your energy cycle or you'll blow your 'golden hours,' but occasionally you have to do the 'possible' to develop the momentum for the killer task.
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#56. I think you keep two sets of books. In one set, you record the truth
how well you are really doing. This is the secret set
just for you and loved ones. In the other set are more modest entries and statements, and these are for public consumption!
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#57. You name it, we're out there with the latest and the best cutting edge.
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#58. If you do the best you can, no matter how bad the situation, you probably are going to come out okay.
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