All Michael Korda Quotes
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
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The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
Michael Korda
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Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.
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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
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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.
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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
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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.
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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
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One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
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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.
Michael Korda
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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.
Michael Korda
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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.
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