Top 139 Quotes & Sayings by Michael Korda - Page 3

Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read.

The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments.

To succeed, we must first believe that we can.

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 American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Yet our society, with its intolerance of failure and poverty, traps millions of people in positions where any kind of success seems impossible to contemplate, and in which failure itself is a kind of passive rebellion against their own misery and the social system which created it in the first place. To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways.

An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

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 deeper, truer happiness in failure.

We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art.

The advice I would offer to any writer is that even when you think you have revised your book to the point where you cannot look at it again, it is time to sit down and revise it some more.

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.

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

If your position is everywhere, your momentum is zero.

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 are completed we are going somewhere.

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 are completed -- we are going somewhere. By focusing our efforts to a single point, we achieve the greatest results. The first rule of success, and the one that supercedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to husband it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia.

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

The first rule of success, and the one that supersedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to husband it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia.

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.