"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

posted in business


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

Other Quotes You Might Like

Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection

"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

timeView Quote
"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

successView Quote
"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."

-Michael Korda

successView Quote
"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

successView Quote
"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

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

-Michael Korda

motivationalView Quote

More Quotes About business

Explore other inspiring quotes in this category

"Of course this is Vegas and it is the melting pot for all over the world, but people from all over the world know Donny and Marie. It is amazing. I have been in the business a long time to realize careers can be fleeting. Five years is a long career nowadays for some people, and here we are still going strong after 40 years."

-Donny Osmond

businessView Quote
"Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world."

-Karl Rove

businessView Quote
"McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object."

-Dave Eggers

businessView Quote
"A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments."

-Donny Osmond

businessView Quote
"To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise."

-Dave Eggers

businessView Quote
"It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business."

-Donny Osmond

businessView Quote