There used to be a strong belief that if you wanted to know what was really going on in a country, the… — Michael Korda Belief Copy Share Image
Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
We, in America and Great Britain, have never had to live with evil and ignore it, or pretend it wasn't happening, as… — Michael Korda America Copy Share Image
Speaking as somebody who is half English and half Hungarian, World War I still seems to me a familiar and seismic event,… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Nobody understood how to use television for his own purposes better than Nixon, despite his poor showing against John F. Kennedy in… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Many years ago, I had the pleasure of editing a book by Joan Crawford, who, like Norma Desmond, was still a big… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human… — Michael Korda Fame Copy Share Image
Surrounded by high-paid publicity people and professional ego massagers, movie stars, like politicians, almost invariably come to believe that they are nicer,… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Even almost a century after her death, Sarah Bernhardt, the French actress whose extraordinary personality, flamboyant life and passionate nature became a… — Michael Korda Death Copy Share Image
Frost was no match for Nixon - far from being an intrepid and challenging interviewer, he was a pushover for the great… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
In my experience, with very few exceptions - I am, as it happens, one of the exceptions - the one thing that… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Citizens of Rome might boast that the claim of 'Civus romanus sum' set them apart from barbarians and slaves, and it was… — Michael Korda Compassion Copy Share Image
Prime ministers come and go, but so long as he or she lives, the sovereign remains, receiving and reading all state papers… — Michael Korda Come and go Copy Share Image
My father and his brothers never mentioned to their English wives and children that they were Jewish. Being Hungarian was exotic and… — Michael Korda Children Copy Share Image
About once a decade, it becomes necessary to remind Americans again that Ulysses S. Grant was a great man, indeed a giant… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
It strikes me that people want to be engaged, and that those who go into a bookstore in a time of crisis… — Michael Korda Bookstore Copy Share Image
To have a childhood surrounded by people like Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh sounds glitzy, but for years I wanted to… — Michael Korda Childhood Copy Share Image
When the Second World War came to an end in Europe, my uncle Sir Alexander Korda was the first filmmaker to reopen… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Much of my publishing life was consumed by the memoirs of movie stars - or by attempts to get them to write… — Michael Korda Life Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan had a kind of shallow movie-star charisma - a combination of makeup and the skill of a good actor -… — Michael Korda Actor Copy Share Image
The first rule of success, and the one that supersedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how… — Michael Korda Energy Copy Share Image
I am a stupendously fast reader and always have been. I can read in at least three languages fluently and two languages… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Success was always critical to me. What it meant was winning enough praise and external admiration that I could feel myself to… — Michael Korda Admiration Copy Share Image
I do not start with a full knowledge of the facts; the whole attraction of writing history is to educate myself: it… — Michael Korda History Copy Share Image
In 1918, Germany suffered the ghastly consequences of defeat; France suffered those of victory, the price of which was to divide and… — Michael Korda Consequences Copy Share Image
The studio moguls were certainly bigger-than-life figures, but they were also tough and unforgiving street fighters to a man, redeemed only because… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments. — Michael Korda Accomplishment Copy Share Image
While politicians may be forgiven for failing to predict the future - who can, alas? - it is amazing that they defiantly… — Michael Korda Amazing Copy Share Image
For a book publisher, there is hardly a more dangerous category than that of celebrity autobiography. Forget who it's by, most books… — Michael Korda Autobiography Copy Share Image
In Eastern Europe, the past is not only always hovering over the present, it is not even passed. It waits, like some… — Michael Korda Eastern europe Copy Share Image
Years of standing in the limelight portraying other people for large amounts of money does not usually lead to a high degree… — Michael Korda Alone Copy Share Image
Success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you… — Michael Korda Best things Copy Share Image
The novelist wants to know how things will turn out; the historian already knows how things turned out, but wants to know… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
To be scrupulously honest, I only met Noel Coward twice in my life, and then briefly, but I heard so much about… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
The huge, turgid work of history, sinking under the weight of its own 'politically correct' thesis and its foot- and source notes,… — Michael Korda British Copy Share Image
The real fans do not just admire the star of their choice, they identify with him or her, while the star, unlike… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
From time to time, one imagined Bill Clinton had charisma, but it never really was more than an occasional false glare. — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is… — Michael Korda Failure Copy Share Image
The advice I would offer to any writer is that even when you think you have revised your book to the point… — Michael Korda Advice Copy Share Image
