Helen Gurley Brown Quotes
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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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Talkers expand like bread dough.
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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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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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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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People never get tired of looking at beautiful pictures of gorgeous girls.
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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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Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.
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Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.
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Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.
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People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes -- pretty soon your closet is so jammed and everything so crushed you can't find anything to wear. Help these friends when they need you; bless the years and happy times when you meant a lot to each other, but try not to have the guilts if new people mean more to you now.
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My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
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Feed the alligators and you get bigger alligators.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The only reason a man doesn't call is that he doesn't want to.
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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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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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Don't use men to get what you want in life. Get it yourself.