Top 30 O W Gurley Quotes
#1. Her mother will die, but it will not be because death has found her mother. It will be because her mother dared death to come visit.
Jason Gurley
#2. If you do the best you can, no matter how bad the situation, you probably are going to come out okay.
Helen Gurley Brown
#4. My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
Helen Gurley Brown
#5. The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.
Helen Gurley Brown
#6. If the goal is to build companies that maximize long-term equity value, then optimizing corporate performance in a way that Wall Street appreciates is obviously critical to that goal.
Bill Gurley
#7. Do what's in front of you as well as possible. Keep going until you realize what you're best at.
Helen Gurley Brown
#8. 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.
Helen Gurley Brown
#9. This is how the darkness is. It knows nothing else. It fills crevices, pushing into the finest, narrowest corners, ascribing no meaning to the events that it carries, but birthing and then swallowing them again as they expire.
Jason Gurley
#10. When you meet a man, don't you always idly wonder what he'd be like in bed? I do.
Helen Gurley Brown
#11. If I had to choose between sex and food, I would choose food, but I'd choose sex over nearly everything else.
Helen Gurley Brown
#12. Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them complex or scary is non-optimal.
Bill Gurley
#13. 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.
Helen Gurley Brown
#14. 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.
Helen Gurley Brown
#15. The faster you get back to people, the less brilliant you have to be,
Helen Gurley Brown
#16. Charm is the next best asset after looks and brains - and can almost make up for looks.
Helen Gurley Brown
#17. Eve's voice emanates from the walls of the station in an otherworldly, haunting way, as if she speaks from everywhere and nowhere at once.
Jason Gurley
#18. 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.
Helen Gurley Brown
#19. Never throw anything good away
real wool, pure silk. Put it away and wait for it to come back.
Helen Gurley Brown
#21. 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.
Helen Gurley Brown
#22. No one's fearful, everyone's greedy, and it will eventually end.
Bill Gurley
#23. At the age of 70-something, Helen Gurley Brown was still a woman who knew how to get men to look at her.
John Searles
#25. It's unrealistic to think you can only have one good product. People are not that poor. They can buy what they want.
Helen Gurley Brown
#26. Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.
Helen Gurley Brown
#27. I think I'm a fairly average person, I think I have only a medium IQ. I didn't go to college, obviously.
Helen Gurley Brown
#29. There should be someone in the world who loves you despite you," she whispers to her mother.
Jason Gurley
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