Helen Gurley Brown Quotes - Page 3

• Being somebody is better than not being somebody vis à vis what you want out of life. If you want to talk to interesting people and have them talk to you, and if you want enough money to live someplace pleasant and to go on trips and be able to help people you love, you simply have to be somebody.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Love You, People, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We are told to value ourselves without feedback, but if nobody is making a pass at you or trying to take you to Bermuda, how are you supposed to feel? Confident?

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Trying, Feedback, Bermuda

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• Never expect anybody - except possibly your analyst - to be as thrilled about your sex life as you are.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Sex, Analysts, Never Expect

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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!

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Book, Thinking, Two

  Helen Gurley Brown (2000). “I'm Wild Again: Snippets from My Life and a Few Brazen Thoughts”, p.113, Macmillan

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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.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Thinking, People, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing everyone a disservice by perpetuating the idea that beautiful is better than plain, because having done everything just about that you can do, sparing no expense, and not effort, to become better looking, I know that only so much can be done.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Beautiful, Ideas, Effort

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Special You, People, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Nice, People, Full Potential

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think I'm a fairly average person, I think I have only a medium IQ. I didn't go to college, obviously.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  College, Thinking, Average

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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