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01Undated

good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere

Helen Gurley Brown / quote

02Undated

Laugh a little when the joke's on you

Helen Gurley Brown / quote

03Undated

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 / quote

04Undated

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

Helen Gurley Brown / quote

05Undated

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

Helen Gurley Brown / quote

06Undated

Nearly every glamorous wealthy successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlepp.

Helen Gurley Brown / quote

07Undated

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

Helen Gurley Brown / quote

08Undated

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

Helen Gurley Brown / quote

09Undated

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

Helen Gurley Brown / quote