Helen Gurley Brown quote: "I hope I have convinced you / the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard."

People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes -- pretty s...
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who are...
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

I was mousy on the outside but inside I'm this tiger and I have to get on with it,
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

What Cosmo did was report on what was true out in the real world, but was never reported before. Som...
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

Cosmo is feminist in that we believe women are just as smart and capable as men and can achieve anyt...
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

It's still the No. 1 seller on college campuses, maybe in the Top 10 in the newsstands, ... Two mill...
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

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

I've got to admit, it's one of the most fun parts of my job, ... We laugh our butts off when we do t...
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

The message was: So you're single. You can still have sex. You can have a great life. And if you mar...
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

No office anywhere on earth is so puritanical, impeccable, elegant, sterile or incorruptible as not ...
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

You name it, we're out there with the latest and the best cutting edge,
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

I would say that Cosmo was always a feminist magazine; it was before the movement really took shape....
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

We got lots of credit for being oh-so-sexy and oh-so-outrageous,
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind...
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

I care. I care a lot. I think of Cosmopolitan all day, and I run scared. So it's a combination of fr...
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

When I wrote 'Sex and the Single Girl,' which was the precursor to Cosmopolitan, if you didn't have ...
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

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

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind...
HELEN GURLEY BROWN

Nasi cichostopi przyjaciele nie tylko uratowali już miliony ludzi, zabijając gryzonie. Pomogli tak...
HELEN BROWN

Dotyk łapki leczy lepiej niż aspiryna.
HELEN BROWN

Guilt isn't in cat vocabulary. They never suffer remorse for eating too much, sleeping too long or h...
HELEN BROWN

Then there was the realisation that I didn't actually feel that much better when I was thin(ner). In...
HELEN BROWN

You have to be careful. I see what I would suggest are features being funded as companies right now.
BILL GURLEY

If a conventional pharmaceutical company had this kind of quality control, the FDA would shut them d...
BILL GURLEY

Over the past 10 years, the majority of value creation in the venture community has been in consumer...
BILL GURLEY

You have to realize that these things are potent cardiac stimulants, and when you are exercising and...
BILL GURLEY

We did a good job of not going for fakes. And Turner had some massive, high-elevating, snatch-it-dow...
MIKE GURLEY

We went into this game very prepared. We went over their tendencies and what they do, so we knew pre...
ANTHONY GURLEY

It definitely helps, the big game experience we've had in the past, especially last year. I guess th...
ANTHONY GURLEY

We came out with great intensity at the beginning, knocking down shots and stuff like that. Then in ...
ANTHONY GURLEY

I have never seen Jeff Bezos, Marc Benioff, or Reed Hastings complain about being public. Nor have t...
BILL GURLEY

Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has.
BILL GURLEY

It is critical to bundle all future variable costs of supporting the customer in order to fairly est...
BILL GURLEY

Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.
BILL GURLEY

If one asserts that buying customers below what they charge them is a corporate strategy, this is in...
BILL GURLEY

Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred...
BILL GURLEY

Most firms are hierarchical in nature, with everyone getting different slices of the economic pie. T...
BILL GURLEY

The first time you went to eBay, you probably didn't do a transaction.
BILL GURLEY

I think one thing that may have happened with both Facebook and Zynga is that they may have waited t...
BILL GURLEY

It's not for everybody to tweet, it's for everybody to follow. The more people figure that o...
BILL GURLEY

Almost everybody who thinks about local thinks about daily deals, but companies like OpenTable and Z...
BILL GURLEY

It's really hard to run a business against somebody who is not acting as if it were in business.
BILL GURLEY

If the goal is to build companies that maximize long-term equity value, then optimizing corporate pe...
BILL GURLEY

Facebook has stitched together your social graph. The idea of an interest graph is to bring together...
BILL GURLEY

I think one of the key differentiators I bring to the table as a venture capitalist is a solid under...
BILL GURLEY

Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them comple...
BILL GURLEY

Making big wind isn't the same as creating a hurricane. The ultimate goal here is to have a full-sca...
KURT GURLEY

Nothing we observed got close to a Category 3 wind speeds.
KURT GURLEY

The disconnect is not between us and forecasters, it's between us and people in general.
KURT GURLEY

Don't think of this as good news. All the billions of dollars of damage that happened over the past ...
KURT GURLEY

Don't think of this as good news. All the billions of dollars in insured losses from the last few ye...
KURT GURLEY

We haven't seen something this big since we started the programme.
KURT GURLEY

This team sort of rides my attitude, and if I'm ornery, they get nervous, and if I get frustrated, t...
MIKE GURLEY

One of the things we need to do as the Board of Commissioners is to work with the school board to de...
TONY GURLEY

Mice are very difficult to do front on, but they have nicely human little hands and feet, and whiske...
HELEN CRAIG

Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He ta...
HELEN FISHER

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian ...
HELEN KELLER

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life o...
HELEN KELLER

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
HELEN KELLER

The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.
HELEN HAYES

Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their...
HELEN HAYES

Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.
HELEN HAYES

Stardom can be a gilded slavery.
HELEN HAYES

The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, a...
HELEN HAYES

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.
HELEN HAYES

There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'...
HELEN HAYES

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born...
HELEN HAYES

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not importan...
HELEN HAYES

I cry out for order and find it only in art.
HELEN HAYES

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.
HELEN HAYES

I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this ...
HELEN HAYES

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.
HELEN HAYES

The story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps...
HELEN HAYES

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.
HELEN HAYES

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when boo...
HELEN HAYES

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the ...
HELEN HAYES

Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, howe...
HELEN HAYES

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
HELEN HAYES

Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a sympto...
HELEN FISHER

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place ...
HELEN KELLER

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
HELEN KELLER

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may b...
HELEN KELLER

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable r...
HELEN KELLER

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
HELEN KELLER

College isn't the place to go for ideas.
HELEN KELLER

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
HELEN KELLER

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
HELEN KELLER

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often ...
HELEN KELLER

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you k...
HELEN KELLER

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.
HELEN KELLER

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of ye...
HELEN KELLER

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have li...
HELEN KELLER

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within th...
HELEN KELLER

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I ha...
HELEN KELLER

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
HELEN KELLER

I've been to L.A. before, and I love the sunshine and the fact that people seem so genuinely nic...
HELEN GEORGE

Of all the foods we share, there is nothing more primordial than meat. It's no surprise that mea...
HELEN FISHER

The Prime Minister is head of team but its not a one woman act. I've been called all those thing...
HELEN CLARK

From my studies of genetics and neuroscience I have come to believe that people fall into four broad...
HELEN FISHER

I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridge...
HELEN FIELDING

I hope there will be continued U.K. investment in human spaceflight to enable Britain to benefit fro...
HELEN SHARMAN

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.
HELEN ROWLAND

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessi...
HELEN ROWLAND

As social animals, we need to exchange juicy tales about someone - to connect with one another. For ...
HELEN FISHER

I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
HELEN ROLAND

Blushing is thought to be linked to increased levels of norepinephrine in the brain, which may be as...
HELEN FISHER

Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. (Helen Schucman over 7 years wrote the Course...
HELEN SCHUCMAN

Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's ass...
HELEN FISHER

I love 'Call the Midwife'; it's an absolute gem of a programme. Filming the Christmas sp...
HELEN GEORGE

A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them a...
HELEN ROWLAND

The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.
HELEN ROWLAND

Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her -- when, ni...
HELEN ROWLAND

It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son -- and another woman twenty minutes to make...
HELEN ROWLAND

Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same...
HELEN ROWLAND

There is very little difference between men and women in space.
HELEN SHARMAN

It's rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hai...
HELEN FIELDING

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others
HELEN KELLER

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perh...
HELEN HAYES

There is only one terminal dignity -- love.
HELEN HAYES

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of t...
HELEN KELLER

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignor...
HELEN FRANKENTHALER

Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the...
HELEN ROWLAND

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary wh...
HELEN TERRY

A fool and her money are soon courted.
HELEN ROWLAND

When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
HELEN ROWLAND

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without l...
HELEN ROWLAND

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after...
HELEN ROWLAND

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.
HELEN ROWLAND

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an ana...
HELEN ROWLAND

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the i...
HELEN ROWLAND

No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a Mast...
HELEN ROWLAND

Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chi...
HELEN FISHER

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because...
HELEN KELLER

A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with ...
HELEN KELLER

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets t...
HELEN ROWLAND

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through se...
HELEN KELLER

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the childr...
HELEN KELLER

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
HELEN KELLER

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
HELEN KELLER

The best way out is always through.
HELEN KELLER

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -...
HELEN KELLER

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know....
HELEN KELLER

Change has to come for life to struggle forward.
HELEN HOLLICK

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
HELEN KELLER

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that ...
HELEN KELLER

It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another fa...
HELEN FIELDING

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.
HELEN KELLER

The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.
HELEN KELLER

I’m never sad when a friend goes far away, because whichever city or country that friend goes to, ...
HELEN OYEYEMI

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
HELEN ROWLAND

The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.
HELEN ROWLAND

There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who'...
HELEN ROWLAND

There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.
HELEN ROWLAND

Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
HELEN ROWLAND

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
HELEN ROWLAND

A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor...
HELEN ROWLAND

Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is...
HELEN KELLER

The follies which a man regrets most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the o...
HELEN ROWLAND

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity
HELEN SCHUCMAN

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we d...
HELEN KELLER

Call the bald man, Boy; make the sage thy toy; greet the youth with solemn face; praise the fat man ...
HELEN ROWLAND

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
HELEN KELLER

When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seek...
HELEN SCHUCMAN

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
HELEN KELLER

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowled...
HELEN KELLER

Dreams show you that you have the power...
HELEN SCHUCMAN

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn...
HELEN ROWLAND

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.
HELEN KELLER

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the...
HELEN KELLER

What a man calls his conscience is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction afte...
HELEN ROWLAND

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can...
HELEN KELLER

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman...
HELEN ROWLAND

I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging...
HELEN HUNT

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are mad...
HELEN ROWLAND

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
HELEN ROWLAND

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they don't understand one another, but...
HELEN ROWLAND

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nat...
HELEN ROWLAND

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whol...
HELEN KELLER

I know that faith made my life possible and that of many others like me... Reason hardly warranted A...
HELEN KELLER

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with th...
HELEN HAYES

Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows.
HELEN NIELSEN

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.
HELEN MACINNESS

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of ano...
HELEN KELLER

To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is ...
HELEN ROWLAND

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a r...
HELEN ROWLAND

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
HELEN KELLER

I hope I have convinced you / the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

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