Michael Korda Famous Quotes
An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
"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."
"In order to suceed, We must first believe that we can."
"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."
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
Michael Korda Quotations
I'm as pure as the driven slush.
Tallulah Bankhead
The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence cynicism.
Albert Camus
"I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'"
Earl Warren
No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.
Archibald Wavell
"Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government."
Aristotle
Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.
Mother Theresa
You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1.
Ernest Rutherford
Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt nine out of ten have the inclination.
Paul Aubuchon
"Offensiveness is a necessary consequence of opinions strongly held and openly expressed, and free societies should treasure and protect it. An idea that offends no one is not worth entertaining."
Unknown
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
George Sheehan