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An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
Written by Michael Korda
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
Written by 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.
Written by Michael Korda
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.
Written by Michael Korda
The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
Written by Michael Korda
What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.
Written by Michael Korda
Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
Written by Michael Korda
The more you can dream, the more you can do.
Written by Michael Korda
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.
Written by Michael Korda
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.
Written by Michael Korda
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
Written by Michael Korda
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.
Written by Michael Korda
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
Written by Michael Korda
The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
Written by Michael Korda
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
Written by Michael Korda
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.
Written by Michael Korda
To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.
Written by Michael Korda
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
Written by 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.
Written by Michael Korda
An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
Written by Michael Korda
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.
Written by Michael Korda
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.
Written by Michael Korda
The novelist wants to know how things will turn out; the historian already knows how things turned out, but wants to know why they turned out the way they did.
Written by Michael Korda
Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.
Written by Michael Korda
It strikes me that people want to be engaged, and that those who go into a bookstore in a time of crisis are much more likely to be looking for explanation than for escapism.
Written by Michael Korda
Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.
Written by Michael Korda
I'm always astonished when I go into Barnes & Noble at the number of people buying books, of course, but also at the variety of books they do buy and the extent to which they are not the big bestsellers.
Written by Michael Korda
I never met Peter O'Toole, but he one was of those rare actors whose success was defined by a single role. His incandescent performance in David Lean's 'Lawrence of Arabia' is one that nobody who saw it will ever forget.
Written by Michael Korda
My books are based on observing others, not myself.
Written by Michael Korda
I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough for me.
Written by Michael Korda

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