Top 100 Quotes About Gurley
#1. And that may be [Helen Gurley] Brown's most enlightened lesson: that sexual autonomy and fulfillment are inseparable from the autonomy and fulfillment that a woman gets from her career.
Judith Thurman
#2. 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
#3. Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.
Bill Gurley
#5. There is no better way to get to know someone than to have an affair ... it can save years of lunches.
Helen Gurley Brown
#7. Every space movie has a nutjob on the space ship, Henry says. And until you kill the nutjob, everybody's in danger.
Jason Gurley
#9. It's really hard to run a business against somebody who is not acting as if it were in business.
Bill Gurley
#10. Facebook has stitched together your social graph. The idea of an interest graph is to bring together everyone that has shared interests. If I can isolate the people who are into mountain biking in Marin, in one place, the ability to put ads against that is really high.
Bill Gurley
#11. The first time you went to eBay, you probably didn't do a transaction.
Bill Gurley
#12. Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
Helen Gurley Brown
#13. herself from the rains. But through the raw and broken trees she could see the valley, faint beneath a gelatinous fog. She's all but certain that she's falling toward the very same
Jason Gurley
#14. a well of beauty tucked away inside the girl, masked by drawn expressions and tired shoulders. She carries unseen weights.
Jason Gurley
#15. Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.
Helen Gurley Brown
#16. Most souls wait for a very long time. In the end, the peace they seek is usually within themselves, not within the confines of the world they left.
Jason Gurley
#17. Two warm bodies and one cold bottle of champagne will produce something more wonderful than would happen without the champagne.
Helen Gurley Brown
#18. Time is a river, and it flows in a circle. I love you.
Jason Gurley
#19. Good posture is the one most important thing anybody can do now to look better.
Helen Gurley Brown
#20. No one in college football or the SEC can tackle me by themselves.
Todd Gurley
#21. It is only a question. It changes nothing that is not already true.
Jason Gurley
#22. Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as the LTV model or formula. Lifetime value is the net present value of the profit stream of a customer.
Bill Gurley
#23. I have never seen Jeff Bezos, Marc Benioff, or Reed Hastings complain about being public. Nor have they ever argued that being public prevented them from doing things with a long-term focus.
Bill Gurley
#24. Sex is one of the three best things out there, and I don't even know what the other two are.
Helen Gurley Brown
#25. My own philosophy is if you're not having sex, you're finished. It separates the girls from the old people.
Helen Gurley Brown
#26. You can't make money with a consensus accurate prediction
Bill Gurley
#27. an atom, and the resulting detonation blinded them all.
Jason Gurley
#29. 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.
Helen Gurley Brown
#30. Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.
Helen Gurley Brown
#31. I think one of the key differentiators I bring to the table as a venture capitalist is a solid understanding of the public markets and how they operate.
Bill Gurley
#32. They did not believe in making any contracts. They believed that as long as you were organized, you could hold the office to what it said it was going to do. But a contract, a piece of paper held you and so they didn't make any contracts.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
#33. 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.
Helen Gurley Brown
#34. Almost everybody who thinks about local thinks about daily deals, but companies like OpenTable and Zillow and Yelp are all getting their money from the local market.
Bill Gurley
#35. 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.
Helen Gurley Brown
#36. 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.
Helen Gurley Brown
#37. 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.
Helen Gurley Brown
#38. I admit I get the occasional headache," I said. "I admit some of my hangovers are epic. But usually all it takes for me to bounce back is a sauna, cold-plunge pool, steam bath, massage, and wasabi to clear the sinuses".
George Gurley
#40. What I really want is a creative person. You can always hire a Ph.D. to take care of the details.
Richard Gurley Drew
#42. There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now,
Bill Gurley
#43. History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died for human freedom, against political oppression and economic slavery.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
#44. And it is miserable to think that this is what adulthood is like: two people, cowering behind their grief, lashing out at each other like injured animals.
Jason Gurley
#45. I think a single woman's biggest problem is coping with the people who are trying to marry her off!
Helen Gurley Brown
#46. Money,if it does not bring you happiness,it will atleast help you be miserable in comfort
Helen Gurley Brown
#47. The IWW [Industrial Workers of the World] has been accused of pushing women to the front. This is not true. Rather, the women have not been kept in back, and so they have naturally moved to the front.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
#48. Never expect anybody - except possibly your analyst - to be as thrilled about your sex life as you are.
Helen Gurley Brown
#49. People never get tired of looking at beautiful pictures of gorgeous girls.
Helen Gurley Brown
#50. After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
Helen Gurley Brown
#51. Cutting a person's throat is not as easy as I thought it would be.
Jason Gurley
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. When you meet a man, don't you always idly wonder what he'd be like in bed? I do.
Helen Gurley Brown
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. The faster you get back to people, the less brilliant you have to be,
Helen Gurley Brown
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. Never throw anything good away
real wool, pure silk. Put it away and wait for it to come back.
Helen Gurley Brown
#65. Do what's in front of you as well as possible. Keep going until you realize what you're best at.
Helen Gurley Brown
#66. 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
#67. No one's fearful, everyone's greedy, and it will eventually end.
Bill Gurley
#69. 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
#70. Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.
Helen Gurley Brown
#71. 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
#73. There should be someone in the world who loves you despite you," she whispers to her mother.
Jason Gurley
#76. Charm is the next best asset after looks and brains - and can almost make up for looks.
Helen Gurley Brown
#77. 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.
Helen Gurley Brown
#78. You know you can't hope yourself a better life - you must take yourself there.
Helen Gurley Brown
#79. Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has.
Bill Gurley
#80. If one asserts that buying customers below what they charge them is a corporate strategy, this is in essence an arbitrage game, and arbitrage games rarely last.
Bill Gurley
#81. One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with.
Helen Gurley Brown
#82. A popular saying in Alderson went as follows: 'They work us like a horse, feed us like a bird, treat us like a child, dress us like a man - and then expect us to act like a lady.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
#83. because when a person has a dream that they've dreamed of their whole life, and they don't get a single chance to accomplish it in the single life that belongs to them, they just sort of wither inside,
Jason Gurley
#84. 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.
Helen Gurley Brown
#86. Silicon Valley is way more correlated with Nasdaq than anyone admits.
Bill Gurley
#87. benches - she was possessive of her mornings, of the quiet before her day became a thing owned by other people - but
Jason Gurley
#88. Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.
Helen Gurley Brown
#89. 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.
Helen Gurley Brown
#91. Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.
Helen Gurley Brown
#92. I think one thing that may have happened with both Facebook and Zynga is that they may have waited too long to go public. They got particularly cute on that front.
Bill Gurley
#93. 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.
Helen Gurley Brown
#94. Over the past 10 years, the majority of value creation in the venture community has been in consumer Internet.
Bill Gurley
#95. It is critical to bundle all future variable costs of supporting the customer in order to fairly estimate the future contribution.
Bill Gurley
#96. 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?
Helen Gurley Brown
#98. My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
Helen Gurley Brown
#99. The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.
Helen Gurley Brown
#100. 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
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