Michael Korda Quotes

The first rule of success, and the one that supersedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to husband it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia.

Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment. By concentrating our efforts upon a few major goals, our efficiency soars, our projects are completed we are going somewhere.

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.

The most important thing to keep in mind in being effective is focus.

Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment.

Focus all your attention and energy on the achievement of the objectives you are involved with right now.

There are so many distractions you can face as a woman, either with relationships or worrying about, Should I go to this party? or, Should I be doing this to help me get ahead? All [success] is, is doing your work and staying focused. It's boring advice, but boring good advice is what you can get from me!

Channel your energy. Focus.

I just think there are enough hours in the day. If you just focus and dedicate yourself and approach each task as it presents itself, you can accomplish a lot.

A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.

You have to make one thing a priority and achieve balance that way, rather than trying to do everything all at once.

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

You can spend your time daydreaming or make use of it in other ways.

If you develop just one muscle, one skill, make it the ability to focus and just get on with it. It will not only make you desirably employable, but it will make you happy.

There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.

When I was in my 20s, I learned not only how to work hard but about the importance of focus.

Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!

Learn to ask, "If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?"

The real key is time management and being able to focus on what you need to, on using every available minute to accomplish something that needs to be done.

Never hide behind busy work. It takes just as much energy to fail as it does to succeed.

Efficiency and focus are the keys to success.

Person who chases two rabbits catches neither.