Helen Gurley Brown Quotes

The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

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.

Sex is one of the three best things out there, and I don't even know what the other two are.

The faster you get back to people, the less brilliant you have to be,

Money,if it does not bring you happiness,it will atleast help you be miserable in comfort

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.

When you meet a man, don't you always idly wonder what he'd be like in bed? I do.

Good posture is the one most important thing anybody can do now to look better.

If I had to choose between sex and food, I would choose food, but I'd choose sex over nearly everything else.

Feed the alligators and you get bigger alligators.

You name it, we're out there with the latest and the best cutting edge.

Good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere

Laugh a little when the joke's on you

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.

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.

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.

Two warm bodies and one cold bottle of champagne will produce something more wonderful than would happen without the champagne.

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.

If you're not a sex object, you're in trouble.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

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.

Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.

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!

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.

Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.

People never get tired of looking at beautiful pictures of gorgeous girls.

Talkers expand like bread dough.

If you can forget the stultifying concept that there are appropriate years for certain endeavors (like getting married) and appropriate days for being gay and merry (like Saturday nights) and use these times without embarrassment or self-pity to do something creative and constructive, I believe half your single girl battle is over.

Do what's in front of you as well as possible. Keep going until you realize what you're best at.

My father died when I was 10; my sister got polio a couple of years later and was paralyzed. So there I was - my sister in a wheel chair, my father gone, and my mother a quiet little mouse. You see, it was the '30s in the South, so my mother was not prepared to cope. So I was scared to death. And being that scared, everything afterward became a struggle not to go down the drain. Struggling became a way of life for me.

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.

Get up and do it if it needs to be done, even if you hate it!

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.

Never throw anything good away
real wool, pure silk. Put it away and wait for it to come back.

If you do the best you can, no matter how bad the situation, you probably are going to come out okay.

I've just been so lucky. I don't know if you're really able to take advantage of your full potential until you're older. There are a few people who are incredibly gifted and make it when they are very young, but I didn't. With women it takes longer. You just keep working and when you finally get it, it feels very, very nice.

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.

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.