Michael Korda

Michael Korda

08-Oct-1933


United Kingdom


Novelist

Michael Korda is the author of Ulysses S. Grant, Ike, Hero, and Charmed Lives. He studied at Le Rosey in Switzerland and at Magdalen College, Oxford, and served in the Royal Air Force. He participated in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and in its fiftieth year he was awarded the Order of Merit of the People's Republic of Hungary. He and his wife, Margaret, live in their home in Dutchess County, New York.

QUOTES BY Michael Korda


Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

"The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success."

"Very well observed and touching story, wonderful eye for detail and a pleasure to read,"

"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."

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

"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."

"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by other people's rules, while quietly playing by your own."

"To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it."

"The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject."

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