Michael Korda Quotes

» An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.

» The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

» Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.

» If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

» The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

» What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

» Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

» The more you can dream, the more you can do.

» Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.

» Never reveal all of yourself to other people; hold back something in reserve so that people are never quite sure if they really know you.

» One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

» It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

» Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

» The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

» Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to "make" your luck by being always prepared.

» Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

» This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.

» To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

» Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

» The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

» Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.

» An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

» The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by other people's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

» One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care.

» Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.

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