Michael Korda famous quotes

The more you can dream, the more you can do.
-- Michael Korda

#Dream #Inspirational Life

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
-- Michael Korda

#Inspirational #Motivational #Goal

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.
-- Michael Korda

#Failure #Successful #People

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.
-- Michael Korda

#Success #Responsibility #People

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

#Success #Learning #Growth

To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.
-- Michael Korda

#Acceptance #World #Succeed

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

#Fool #Doe #World

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.
-- Michael Korda

#Doors #Keys #Accomplishment

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.
-- Michael Korda

#Jobs #Congratulations #Hate

Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways.
-- Michael Korda

#Rivers #Water #Gossip

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.
-- Michael Korda

#People #Never Quit #Charisma

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

#Success #Business #Creativity

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.
-- Michael Korda

#Believe #Affirmation #Belief

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.
-- Michael Korda

#Believe #Self Confidence #Men

Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read.
-- Michael Korda

#Book #Writing #People

The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments.
-- Michael Korda

#Past #Skills #Accomplishment

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

#Action #Moments #Eternity

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

#Women #Liberty #Dresses

If your position is everywhere, your momentum is zero.
-- Michael Korda

#Basketball #Zero #Momentum

Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.
-- Michael Korda

#Numbers #Reader

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.
-- Michael Korda

#Happiness #Success #Next

The first rule of success, and the one that supersedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to husband it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia.
-- Michael Korda

#Husband #Focus #Important

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.
-- Michael Korda

#Mean #Simple #Luck

To succeed, we must first believe that we can.
-- Michael Korda

#Positive #Believe #Firsts

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

#Success #Distance #Achievement

An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
-- Michael Korda

#Ambition #Hypocrisy #Pounds

The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Yet our society, with its intolerance of failure and poverty, traps millions of people in positions where any kind of success seems impossible to contemplate, and in which failure itself is a kind of passive rebellion against their own misery and the social system which created it in the first place.To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.
-- Michael Korda

#Believe #Order #People

We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art.
-- Michael Korda

#Art #Book #Shoes

Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment.
-- Michael Korda

#Doors #Keys #Accomplishment

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.
-- Michael Korda

#Games #Care #Firsts

Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.
-- Michael Korda

#Work #Males #Method

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. By focusing our efforts to a single point, we achieve the greatest results. The first rule of success, and the one that supercedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to husband it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia.
-- Michael Korda

#Husband #Doors #Keys

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!
-- Michael Korda

#Dream #Writing #Reality

You need your strength and you need as much support from family, friends, and loved ones as you can get.
-- Michael Korda

#Support #Survival #Needs