Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Michael Korda
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: October 8
Publisher
Writer
London
England
Firsts
Already
First
Playing
Must
Game
Knew
Games
Calmly
Didn
Accepted
Power
Rules
Care
News
More quotes by Michael Korda
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.
Michael Korda
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.
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
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
Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read.
Michael Korda
You need your strength and you need as much support from family, friends, and loved ones as you can get.
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
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
If your position is everywhere, your momentum is zero.
Michael Korda
The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments.
Michael Korda
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
Michael Korda
What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.
Michael Korda
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.
Michael Korda
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.
Michael Korda
Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.
Michael Korda
To succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Michael Korda
Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.
Michael Korda
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 think it - ink it!
Michael Korda
