Michael Korda
Michael Korda

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

Michael Korda
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.

Michael Korda
Michael Korda

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

Michael Korda
Michael Korda

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

Michael Korda
Michael Korda

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

Michael Korda
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.

Michael Korda
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.

Michael Korda
Michael Korda

The pleasure lies not in the cookies, but in the pattern the crumbs make when the cookies crumble.

Michael Korda
Michael Korda

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Michael Korda
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.

Michael Korda
Michael Korda

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

Michael Korda
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.

Michael Korda
Michael Korda

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

Michael Korda
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.

Michael Korda
Michael Korda

There used to be a strong belief that if you wanted to know what was really going on in a country, the best thing to do was to go there and ask a taxi driver.

Michael Korda
Michael Korda

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

Michael Korda
Michael Korda

In my experience, with very few exceptions - I am, as it happens, one of the exceptions - the one thing that most editors don't want to do is edit. It's not nearly as conducive to a successful career as having lunch out with important agents or going to meetings where you get noticed.

Michael Korda
Michael Korda

FDR had a certain charisma, at least in his first term, with the big grin, the cigarette holder at a jaunty angle, and the battered hat on his imposing head, but no other American president since then has had it except JFK - indeed, some of them have been positively anti-charismatic, like Gerald Ford, Carter, and the Bushes.

Michael Korda
Michael Korda

I once attended a birthday party where Danny Kaye dropped in to entertain the birthday boy and his guests; I was sometimes taken for lunch on Saturdays by my father to The Brown Derby; and my favorite meal is still the Cobb salad in the Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Michael Korda
Michael Korda

I attended first a military academy, then a public school in Beverly Hills, where we lived, and many of my classmates were the children of movie stars and studio executives.