Quotes by Helen Gurley Brown

Helen Gurley Brown

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.

Interesting

Love You

People

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

Realizing

Self Knowledge

Wells

Don’t use men to get what you want in life. Get it yourself.

Independent Women

Use

Want

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.

Exercise

Feel Good

Morning

Feed the alligators and you get bigger alligators.

Alligators

Kindness

Trouble

Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.

Feelings

Insecure

Use

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

Hate

Needs

Positivity

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.

Caring

Running

Thinking

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.

Age

Successful

Survivor

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!

Book

Thinking

Two

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Age

Alligators

Beautiful

Bed

Bermuda

Better Life

Body

Book

Bottles

Bread

Careers

Caring

Couple

Dating

Dough

Envy

Exercise

Father

Feedback

Feel Good

Feelings

Full Potential

Funny

Girl

Glasses

Hate

Independent Women

Insecure

Inspiration

Inspirational

Inspiring

Interesting

Kind

Kindness

Knows

Life

Love Is

Love You

Magazines

Making Love

Matter

Men

Money

Morning

Mother

Motivational

Needs

Nice

Objects

Office

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Quotes by Helen Gurley Brown

Helen Gurley Brown

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.

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

Don’t use men to get what you want in life. Get it yourself.

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.

Feed the alligators and you get bigger alligators.

Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.

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.

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.

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!

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