Helen Gurley Brown (February 18, 1922 – August 13, 2012) was an American author, publisher, and businesswoman. She was the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine for 32 years. Read full biography of Helen Gurley Brown →
My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.
Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.
Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.
Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.
One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with.
You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.
Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
You name it, we're out there with the latest and the best cutting edge.
Helen Gurley Brown (February 18, 1922 – August 13, 2012) was an American author, publisher, and businesswoman. She was the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine for 32 years.