"My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense." ― Helen Gurley Brown Topic(s): Great More From Helen Gurley Brown "Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort." "Beauty can’t amuse you, but brainwork – reading, writing, thinking – can." "After you’re older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money." More In Great "If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name."― Theodore Roosevelt "Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied."― Pearl S. Buck "I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future."― Taylor Swift