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Michael Korda Quotes

born 1933 England

Michael Korda (born 8 October 1933) is a writer and novelist who was a longtime editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster in New York City.

England
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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.

Success! (1977)

Learn to accept your mistakes. Don't be a perfectionist about everything.

Power : How To Get It, How To Use It (1976)

The first step to success is to accept the consequences of knowing that you're right, when that is the case. It is not so much a matter of being assertive, as of giving up the comfortable cocoon of apologies and guilt in which most of us have chosen to live.

Success! (1977)

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you?

Disputed to Korda in The Power of Choice (2007)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Michael Korda (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.