Michael Korda Quotes

• In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.

  Michael Korda

  Topics in Ability, Success

  Tags in Responsibility, Quality

• 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

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Chance

• What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

  Michael Korda

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

  Michael Korda

  Topics in Success

• 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.

  Michael Korda

  Topics in Success

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

  Michael Korda

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good

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

  Michael Korda

  Topics in Dream

• 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

  Topics in Failure, Success

• 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

  Topics in Success

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

  Michael Korda

  Topics in Work

• 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

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Responsibility

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

  Michael Korda

  Topics in Success

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

  Michael Korda

  Topics in Uncategorized

• 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

  Topics in Power

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

  Michael Korda

  Topics in Failure

• 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

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

  Michael Korda

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women

• 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.

  Michael Korda

• 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.

  Michael Korda

  Topics in Success

• 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

  Tags in Belive

Michael Korda (24)

Birth:	8th October, 1933
Nationality:	American, British
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

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