“It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement that matters.”

— Michael Korda

Source: Success! (1977), p. 272; often quoted as "Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement."
Context: 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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British writer 1933

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