Helen Gurley Brown
Helen Gurley Brown
Helen Gurley Brown was an American author, publisher, and businesswoman. She was the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine for 32 years...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth18 February 1922
CityGreen Forest, AR
CountryUnited States of America
Helen Gurley Brown quotes about
motivation book writing
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.
book thinking two
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!
american-editor money
You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.
american-editor bad funny girls good
Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
mother couple father
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.
successful age survivor
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.
recognition
You can have your titular recognition. I'll take the money and the power.
trying adrenal-glands good-marriage
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.
glasses years office
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.
college thinking average
I think I'm a fairly average person, I think I have only a medium IQ. I didn't go to college, obviously.
inspiration thinking magazines
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.
kindness trouble bigger
Feed the alligators and you get bigger alligators.
men dating want
The only reason a man doesn't call is that he doesn't want to.
brain looks next
Charm is the next best asset after looks and brains - and can almost make up for looks.