Michael Korda Quotes

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

To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

To succeed, we must first believe that we can.

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

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.

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.

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.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

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.

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