Michael Korda Quotes

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

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.

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

An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways.

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

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.

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.

If your position is everywhere, your momentum is zero.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.

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

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

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.

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

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

Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

To succeed, we must first believe that we can.