Melvin Powers

I think I was born with the drive for success because I have a certain gene.

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who do nothing and succeed.

One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow. There are people-I categorize them as life’s losers-who get their sense of accomplishment and achievement from trying to stop others. As far as I’m concerned, if they had any real ability they wouldn’t be fighting me, they’d be doing something constructive themselves.

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn’t making mistakes that’s critical; it’s correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

A minute of success pays for years of failure.

There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.

Success is not all about money. It’s about having the resources and the ability to live the life that you have personally dreamed of.

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Can success change the human mechanism so completely between one dawn and another? Can it make one feel taller, more alive, handsomer, uncommonly gifted and indomitably secure with the certainty that this is the way life will always be? It can and it does!

I measure success by how many people love me.

If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.

My whole life is about winning. I don’t lose often. I almost never lose.