154 Quotes by Michael Korda

If you don’t believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man’s way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

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

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.

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

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you’re playing by somebody else’s rules, while quietly playing by your own.

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.

We sell books, other people sell shoes. What’s the difference? Publishing isn’t the highest art.

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

Lee was a born pedagogue, never happier than when his children were learning to do something the right way. It is a testament to Lee’s affection and patience that his children did not rebel. In fact, they appear to have thrived.