Helen Gurley Brown Quotes

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

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

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• One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with.

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

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

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• Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

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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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• Beauty can’t amuse you, but brainwork – reading, writing, thinking – can.

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• After you’re older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

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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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Helen Gurley Brown (11)

Birth:	18th February, 1922
Death:	13th August, 2012
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Businesswoman, Editor

About

Helen Gurley Brown was born in Green Forest, Arkansas, USA. She was an American author, editor and businesswoman. She was the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine for 32 years. She graduated from Woodbury Business College in 1941. She worked for Foote, Cone & Belding advertising agency as a secretary. She wrote several books include: Sex and the Single Girl, Sex and the office, Sex and the New Single Girl, Cosmopolitan's Love Book, Having It All, The Late Show, The writer's rules, and I'm wild again.

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