Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Michael Korda (English-born Writer, Novelist)

Michael Korda (b.1933) is an American editor, essayist, novelist, biographer, and memoirist. He was editor-in-chief (and now emeritus) for the Simon & Schuster publishing organization in New York City.

Born in London, England, Korda started as a slush pile reader and made a name by finding a series of best sellers. He published such writers as Graham Greene, Joan Didion, Larry McMurtry, Jackie Collins, and Anthony Burgess.

As a writer, Korda’s first big breakthrough was a self-help book called Power! How to Get It, How to Use It (1975.) He purposed the book as satire—explaining, for instance, how to arrange office furniture to take advantage of co-workers. However, readers took the book seriously, and it became a bestseller. Korda’s other works include Making the List: A Cultural History of the American Bestseller (2001.)

Beginning in the 2000s, Korda wrote numerous history and biography books on the Hungarian Revolution (Journey to a Revolution; 2009,) Dwight D. Eisenhower (Ike: An American Hero; 2009,) T. E. Lawrence (Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia; 2010) and Robert E. Lee (Clouds of Glory; 2014.)

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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.
Michael Korda
Topics: Enjoyment, Success

Act impeccably! Perform every act as if it were the only thing in the world that mattered.
Michael Korda

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
Michael Korda
Topics: Ambition, Hypocrisy

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

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
Michael Korda
Topics: Fools, Foolishness

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Michael Korda
Topics: Courage, Belief, Attitude

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
Topics: Luck

Learn to use time, think of it as a friend, not an enemy. Don’t waste it in going after things you don’t want.
Michael Korda

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: Responsibility

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: Success & Failure, Success

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
Topics: Life, Ideas, Control

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one’s origins and one’s final achievement.
Michael Korda
Topics: Success, Accomplishment, Success & Failure

The first step to success is to accept the consequences of knowing that you’re right, when that is the case. It is not so much a matter of being assertive, as of giving up the comfortable cocoon of apologies and guilt in which most of us have chosen to live.
Michael Korda

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: Failure, Mistakes

Don’t make waves, move smoothly without disturbing things.
Michael Korda

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

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.
Michael Korda
Topics: Success & Failure, Success

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
Michael Korda
Topics: Failure

Learn to accept your mistakes. Don’t be a perfectionist about everything.
Michael Korda

The more you can dream, the more you can do.
Michael Korda
Topics: Dreams

Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.
Michael Korda
Topics: Men & Women, Women, Men

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