Michael Korda quotes

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. (Michael Korda)
The more you can dream, the more you can do. View quote
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The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance. View quote
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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. View quote
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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets. View quote
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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. View quote
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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it. View quote
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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement. (Michael Korda)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe. View quote
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Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed. View quote
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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition. View quote
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If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? View quote
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Act impeccably! Perform every act as if it were the only thing in the world that mattered. (Michael Korda)
Learn to use time, think of it as a friend, not an enemy. Don't waste it in going after things you don't want. View quote
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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. View quote
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Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers. View quote
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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life. View quote
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