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Quotes from Success! — Michael Korda

born 1933 England

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15 quotes

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

Success! (1977)

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.

Success! (1977)

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

Success! (1977)

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

Success! (1977)

It's fun to be in the game, and it's even more fun to win.

Success! (1977)

The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can.

Success! (1977)

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility.

Success! (1977)

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you derive from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.

Success! (1977)

In America, success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement that matters.

Success! (1977)

Remember: never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully — and imaginatively — for its hidden assets.

Success! (1977)

Find out what you enjoy doing, and your chances of succeeding will be dramatically better. We play the game every day, sometimes without even recognizing that we're doing it.

Success! (1977)

In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have (and which is the most difficult one of all to learn or fake) is the ability to take on responsibility.

Success! (1977)

And it's always O.K. to be rich.

Success! (1977)

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)

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)

Attribution

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