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

— Helen Gurley Brown

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

— Helen Gurley Brown

Good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere

— Helen Gurley Brown

I care. I care a lot. Furthermore, I think of "Cosmopolitan" all day and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright caring and anxiety.

— Helen Gurley Brown

Laugh a little when the joke's on you

— 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

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

— Helen Gurley Brown

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

— Helen Gurley Brown