To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.
More Quotes from Michael Korda:
It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.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
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.
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The more you can dream, the more you can do.
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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.
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Male chauvinism is ... a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.
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