Michael Korda Quotes

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• 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…
• Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.
• 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…
• The more you can dream, the more you can do.
• Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.
• 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.
• If your position is everywhere, your momentum is zero.
• Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.
• The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
• Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment. By concentrating our efforts upon a few major goals, our efficiency soars, our projects…
• The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments.
• Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment. By concentrating our efforts upon a few major goals, our efficiency soars, our projects…
• Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways.
• Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just…
• You need your strength and you need as much support from family, friends, and loved ones as you can get.
• Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.
• One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and…
• Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment.
• We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art.
• One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

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