Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
Michael Korda

An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
Michael Korda

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
Michael Korda

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
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

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.
Michael Korda

Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.
Michael Korda

Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.
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

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


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 didn't care.
Michael Korda

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

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

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

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

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

The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
Michael Korda

This is true enough, but 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.
Michael Korda