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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