Author: Michael Korda

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One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care.

One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care.

- Michael Korda

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

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

- Michael Korda

In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was called until 1939.

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

Speaking as somebody who is half English and half Hungarian, World War I still seems to me a familiar and seismic event, as if it had only just ended.

Speaking as somebody who is half English and half Hungarian, World War I still seems to me a familiar and seismic event, as if it had only just ended.

- Michael Korda

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

- Michael Korda

It strikes me that people want to be engaged, and that those who go into a bookstore in a time of crisis are much more likely to be looking for explanation than for escapism.

It strikes me that people want to be engaged, and that those who go into a bookstore in a time of crisis are much more likely to be looking for explanation than for escapism.

- Michael Korda

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

- Michael Korda

The men who died at D-Day did not die shoulder-to-shoulder with their French comrades. They died to liberate the French from a sinister and brutal occupation.

The men who died at D-Day did not die shoulder-to-shoulder with their French comrades. They died to liberate the French from a sinister and brutal occupation.

- Michael Korda

The more you can dream, the more you can do.

The more you can dream, the more you can do.

- Michael Korda

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