Melvin Powers

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.

People who are fools don’t get successful, and they don’t get to be successful if they are worried about their popularity.

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one’s business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

To be successful in the world of entrepreneurs, especially in the early stages, a person must learn to fail, correct, learn, apply what was learned, and fail again.

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

It was just inconceivable to me I couldn’t win it all.

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is work or play.

If you want to double your success rate, you need to double your failure rate.

[As a child] I want to earn a thousand dollars a week, have an apartment on Ocean Parkway, and drive a Cadillac convertible.

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

I don’t think people get to be successful unless they have very strong egos.

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.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.