Michael Korda
Michael Korda
Michael Kordais an English-born writer and novelist who was editor-in-Chief of Simon & Schuster in New York City...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
happiness success next
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.
writing curiosity world
Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.
motivational positive believe
To succeed, we must first believe that we can.
success distance achievement
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
action moments eternity
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
ambition hypocrisy pounds
An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
women resent-you liberty
Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.
work males method
Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.
past skills accomplishment
The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments.
support survival needs
You need your strength and you need as much support from family, friends, and loved ones as you can get.
games care firsts
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.
doors keys accomplishment
Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment.
doe world fool
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
believe affirmation belief
What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.