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 1 Share Now -
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. - Michael Korda 3 Share Now -
Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement. - Michael Korda 4 Share Now -
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 5 Share Now -
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 6 Share Now -
Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human being. - Michael Korda 7 Share Now -
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 8 Share Now -
In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was called until 1939. - Michael Korda 9 Share Now -
The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject. - Michael Korda 10 Share Now -
