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