Helen Gurley Brown Quotes

All that matters in life," the grey man went on, "is to climb the ladder of success, amount to something, own things. When a person climbs higher than the rest, amounts to more, owns more things, everything else comes automatically: friendship, love, respect, et cetera..." "Isn't there anyone who loves you?" Momo whispered.

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it.

The television has opened a lot of doors for me. I am very successful at what I do, and I live a good life. It's not something that I'm embarrassed of. I think it's something people should want to aspire to.

Being somebody: it's one of the ideas in life, no? That's what my father made clear to me. The importance of being somebody. He wanted to be somebody. And he underlined to me the fate of trying to be somebody and not quite managing to do it.

One of the greatest freedoms of living in America is being able to ask the question: "If I could do anything I wanted with my life - money being no object - what would I do?" In many parts of the world, people don't have the luxury of asking that question.

Money to some extent sometimes let you be in more interesting environments. But it can't change how many people love you or how healthy you are.

I'm not doing the run to become rich or famous.

Money doesn't drive me.

You have to be the one setting your own goals, trying to achieve those goals.

Success is not only one thing. It's not only having a nice house in Beverly Hills and driving a nice Mercedes.

I'm glad I'm successful at it, because it's allowed me to live very well financially, and give my kids a lot of things. It's enabled me to do stuff that I otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But it's not who I am.

I never thought I'd get a chance to do what I'm doing. It's such a dream.

I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

He that is rich is wise.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

It's important to set your own goals and work hard to achieve them.

If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.

My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.

Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles.

One day I will settle down, when I have achieved everything I wanted.

I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did.