Michael Korda

Nothing in the Middle East is ever forgotten or forgiven.

— Michael Korda

There are no French Puritans.

— Michael Korda

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

— Michael Korda

The bestseller list is the tip of the iceberg.

— Michael Korda

Nobody could emerge from a childhood at MGM unscathed.

— Michael Korda

I'm a relatively unfocused person.

— Michael Korda

Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways.

— Michael Korda

To succeed, we must first believe that we can.

— Michael Korda

Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment.

— Michael Korda

Most biographers are apt to be discouraged by the sheer volume of papers left behind by their subject.

— Michael Korda

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

— Michael Korda

The big bestsellers aren't being created by Barnes & Noble.

— Michael Korda

The normal reaction of a publisher when faced with an author with a bee in his bonnet is to grab the check…

— Michael Korda

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

— Michael Korda

You need your strength and you need as much support from family, friends, and loved ones as you can get.

— Michael Korda

I don't give plots to Harold Robbins or Graham Greene, because they don't need them, but a lot of authors do.

— Michael Korda

I'm always astonished when I go into Barnes & Noble at the number of people buying books, of course, but also at…

— 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

For a brief moment, Ian Fleming made being an Englishman seem sexy, even to the French. He should have been awarded a…

— Michael Korda

The relationship between stars and their fans is always ambivalent and often highly charged with contradictory and ambivalent emotions, of which the…

— Michael Korda

T. E. Lawrence was far more than a glamorous, swashbuckling, heroic figure in flowing robes mounted on a camel, leading the Arab…

— Michael Korda

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in…

— Michael Korda

Of course the rich and famous tend to have more going on in their lives than ordinary people, but they aren't always…

— Michael Korda

When I started work at Simon & Schuster in 1958, each of us got a bronze paperweight on which was written, in…

— Michael Korda

The French consider themselves the guardians of the world's culture and do not bother to hide the fact, which is annoying, but…

— Michael Korda

The first thing to be said about 'Prague Winter,' former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's new book, is that she very wisely…

— Michael Korda

If you're a retailer and know that once a year you're going to get Mary Higgins Clark's book on a given date,…

— Michael Korda

Those of us who have not had the experience of being invaded by the Germans are in no position to criticize those…

— Michael Korda

Peter Fleming was a famous English traveler, explorer and adventurer, whose non-fiction books were hugely successful. My father owned signed copies of…

— Michael Korda

Indeed, it is measure of how little we know about Cleopatra that the only images of her are either the coins she…

— Michael Korda

I once attended a birthday party where Danny Kaye dropped in to entertain the birthday boy and his guests; I was sometimes…

— Michael Korda

My father fought on the side of the Central Powers, as a soldier in the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Army, my maternal…

— Michael Korda

Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment. By concentrating our efforts upon a few major goals, our efficiency…

— Michael Korda

“None of this means of course that Robert E. Lee wasn't influenced by his father, or didn't inherit some of his better…

— Michael Korda

The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Yet our society, with its…

— Michael Korda

If your position is everywhere, your momentum is zero.

— Michael Korda

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.

— Michael Korda

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

— Michael Korda

An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

— Michael Korda

Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.

— Michael Korda