Quotes by Korda, Michael




Michael Korda (b. 1933 in London, England, United Kingdom) is a novelist who was Editor-in-Chief of Simon & Schuster in New York City..

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

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

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

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"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."

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

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"The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success."

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

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"Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. In the final analysis, the only quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility."

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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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"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."

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

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"In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can."

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