In America, success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement that matters. - Michael Korda

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In America, success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement that matters.

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About Michael Korda

Michael Korda (born 8 October 1933) is a writer and novelist who was a longtime editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster in New York City.

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The first step to success is to accept the consequences of knowing that you're right, when that is the case. It is not so much a matter of being assertive, as of giving up the comfortable cocoon of apologies and guilt in which most of us have chosen to live.

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