J.M. Power

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

I don’t like losers. Donald Trump

You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things to compete. You can just be an ordinary person, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

Success is dependent upon the glands – sweat glands.

When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

All you need to be a success is ignorance and self confidence.

Stumbling is not the same as falling.

Great people do things before they’re ready.

One does not always do the best there is. One does the best one can. – Catherine the Great

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

First comes the shy wish. Then you must have the heart to have the dream. Then, you work, and work.

Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do.

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.

In a lot of ways it is easier to do things on a large scale. It is easier to build a skyscraper in Manhattan than it is to buy a bungalow in the Bronx. For one thing, it takes just as much time to close a big deal as it does to close a small deal. You will endure as much stress and aggravation; you will have all the same headaches and problems. It is easier to finance a big deal. Bankers would much rather lend money for a big project than for a small one. They are more comfortable investing money in a big prestigious building than they are a rundown house in a bad section of town. If you succeed with the big project, you stand to gain a lot more money.

There’s never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.