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

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

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

Motivational, Goals, Way

I once attended a birthday party where Danny Kaye dropped in to entertain the birthday boy and his guests; I was sometimes taken for lunch on Saturdays by my father to The Brown Derby; and my favorite meal is still the Cobb salad in the Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel. Michael Korda

Birthday, Father, Lunch

The pleasure lies not in the cookies, but in the pattern the crumbs make when the cookies crumble. Michael Korda

Pleasure, Cookies, Pattern

In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was called until 1939. Michael Korda

War, Great, World

Frost was no match for Nixon - far from being an intrepid and challenging interviewer, he was a pushover for the great and the famous, always deeply impressed with the fact that here he was, David Frost, putting questions to - Richard Nixon! Michael Korda

Great, Questions, Famous

Nothing in the Middle East is ever forgotten or forgiven. Michael Korda

Forgotten, Nothing, Middle

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

Ambition, Worth, Ounce

Chanel took women out of corsets and put them into the 'simple little black dress,' the perfectly tailored suit, the bell-bottom sailor pants, and jersey tops. Michael Korda

Women, Simple, Black

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

World, Rise Above, Rise

Success was always critical to me. What it meant was winning enough praise and external admiration that I could feel myself to be a logical extension of my Uncle Alex, Uncle Zoli, and my father, in that order. Michael Korda

Success, Father, Myself

To be scrupulously honest, I only met Noel Coward twice in my life, and then briefly, but I heard so much about him at home when I was growing up that I always felt I knew him well. Michael Korda

Life, Home, Growing Up

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

Success, Achievement, Easy

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

Business, Rules, Look

Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human being. Michael Korda

Life, People, Famous

While politicians may be forgiven for failing to predict the future - who can, alas? - it is amazing that they defiantly ignore the past. Michael Korda

Future, Amazing, Past

Years of standing in the limelight portraying other people for large amounts of money does not usually lead to a high degree of self-examination, let alone self-criticism. Michael Korda

Money, Alone, People

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

Success, Responsibility

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

Yourself, People, Know

I attended first a military academy, then a public school in Beverly Hills, where we lived, and many of my classmates were the children of movie stars and studio executives. Michael Korda

Children, Stars, School

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

Work, Man, Yourself

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe. Michael Korda

Believe, You, Will

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

Dreams, Dream, You

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

Work, World, Fool

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

Success, Happiness, Failure

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

Good, Moment, Action

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

Success, Strength, Time

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