Michael Korda best Famous Quotes – “The rich and famous expect to get a lot for their story, whether they are writing it themselves or not. It’s not that they need the money, of course; it’s a question of ego, like catching the biggest fish.”
Michael Korda best Famous Quotes – “The rich and famous expect to get a lot for their story, whether they are writing it themselves or not. It’s not that they need the money, of course; it’s a question of ego, like catching the biggest fish.”
Michael Korda best Famous Quotes – “Frost was no match for Nixon – far from being an intrepid and challenging interviewer, he was a pushover for the great and the famous, always deeply impressed with the fact that here he was, David Frost, putting questions to – Richard Nixon!”
Michael Korda best Failure Quotes – “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.”
Michael Korda best Failure Quotes – “Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.”
Michael Korda best Failure Quotes – “This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can’t be happy as a success, it’s very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.”
Michael Korda best Equality Quotes – “Citizens of Rome might boast that the claim of ‘Civus romanus sum’ set them apart from barbarians and slaves, and it was true up to a point, but Roman citizens lived in a society that accepted pain, cruelty, and torture as the norm, and in which there was no suggestion of equality at birth or mercy in the afterlife.”
Michael Korda best Dreams Quotes – “The more you can dream, the more you can do.”
Michael Korda best Christmas Quotes – “When I was a child in England before the war, Christmas pudding always contained at least one shiny new sixpence, and it was considered a sign of great good luck for the new year to find one in your helping of the pudding.”
Michael Korda best Business Quotes – “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 best Birthday Quotes – “I once attended a birthday party where Danny Kaye dropped in to entertain the birthday boy and his guests; I was sometimes taken for lunch on Saturdays by my father to The Brown Derby; and my favorite meal is still the Cobb salad in the Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel.”
Michael Korda best Attitude Quotes – “The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.”