Michael Korda Quotes
"Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity."
- Michael Korda
(Related: Action, Eternity)
"An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition."
- Michael Korda
(Related: Ambition, Hypocrisy, Worth)
"An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition."
- Michael Korda
(Related: Ambition, Worth)
"Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life."
- Michael Korda
(Related: Art, Life, Nothing)
"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
(Related: Work, Man, Will)
"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
(Related: Success, People, Confidence, Disaster)
"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
(Related: Being, Luck, Right)
"Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed."
- Michael Korda
(Related: Men, Women, Dress)
"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
(Related: Success, Time, People, Successful, Failure, Strength, Freedom, Measure, Succeed)
"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
(Related: Success, Desire, Fact, Hate, Job, Pleasure)
"What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe."
- Michael Korda
(Related: Will)
"To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it."
- Michael Korda
(Related: Succeed, World)
"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
(Related: Happiness, Success, 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
(Related: People)
"The more you can dream, the more you can do."
- Michael Korda
(Related: Dream)
"Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets."
- Michael Korda
(Related: Failure, Study)
"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
(Related: Rules, Succeed)
"The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance."
- Michael Korda
(Related: Work, Appearance, Fool, World)
"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
(Related: Success, Quality, People, Successful, Ability, Responsibility)
"Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement."
- Michael Korda
(Related: Success, Achievement, Measure)
"One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals."
- Michael Korda
(Related: Goals)
"The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject."
- Michael Korda
(Related: Attitude, Agitation, Consideration)