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

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
Helen Gurley Brown

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
Helen Gurley Brown

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.
Helen Gurley Brown

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

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.
Helen Gurley Brown

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.
Helen Gurley Brown

One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with.
Helen Gurley Brown

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

You name it, we're out there with the latest and the best cutting edge.
Helen Gurley Brown