Michael Korda

Who is Michael Korda?

Michael Korda is a writer and novelist who was editor-in-Chief of Simon & Schuster in New York City.

Famous Quotes:

• 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.
• Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
• The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
• The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
• 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.
• The more you can dream, the more you can do.
• In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
• 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 hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
• Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
• To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.