Michael Korda Quotes

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

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The more you can dream, the more you can do.

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

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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.

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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.

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

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The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

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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.

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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.

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Many years ago, I had the pleasure of editing a book by Joan Crawford, who, like Norma Desmond, was still a big star; it was just the movies that had gotten smaller.

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