Michael Korda Quotes
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.
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.
Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it - ink it!
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
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.
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
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.
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment. By concentrating our efforts upon a few major goals, our efficiency soars, our projects are completed we are going somewhere.
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.
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
You need your strength and you need as much support from family, friends, and loved ones as you can get.
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.
We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art.
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.
Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.
The advice I would offer to any writer is that even when you think you have revised your book to the point where you cannot look at it again, it is time to sit down and revise it some more.
Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.
The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments.
Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.
Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read.
The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War, ' as it was called until 1939.
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.
Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human being.
Of course the rich and famous tend to have more going on in their lives than ordinary people, but they aren't always willing to tell the interesting bits.
Cats don't think they're owned by anybody. Even behind doors and windows, like amiable Wally, they're free. Always. That may, in fact, be the most important thing about them.
Years of standing in the limelight portraying other people for large amounts of money does not usually lead to a high degree of self-examination, let alone self-criticism.
While politicians may be forgiven for failing to predict the future - who can, alas? - it is amazing that they defiantly ignore the past.