Korda Quotes

If your position is everywhere, your momentum is zero. — Michael Korda

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

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. — Michael Korda

We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art. — Michael Korda

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

Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers. — Michael Korda

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. — Michael Korda

Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed. — Michael Korda

There are no descriptions, it is almost needless to say, of Caesar, Napoleon, Hitler, or for that matter, Jefferson Davis playing with kittens. — Margaret Korda

I still forgive him, because by doing what he did, he made it famous. — Alberto Korda

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life. — Michael Korda

My books are based on observing others, not myself. — Michael Korda

Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself. — Michael Korda

The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments. — Michael Korda

It must be nice, Queenie thought, to be one thing or another, to know where you belonged. — Michael Korda

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

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

I'm a relatively unfocused person. — Michael Korda

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe. — Michael Korda

The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject. — Michael Korda

You need your strength and you need as much support from family, friends, and loved ones as you can get. — Michael Korda

Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read. — Michael Korda

The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography. — Alberto Korda

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

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

I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough for me. — Michael Korda

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

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

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully for its hidden assets. — Michael Korda

Male chauvinism is ... a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation. — Michael Korda

Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture. — Alberto Korda

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