Melvin Powers

It’s a great thing when you can show that you’ve been successful and that you’ve made a lot of money and that you’ve employed a lot of people.

Being stubborn is a big part of being a winner.

Keys to success: Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.

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

I was determined to succeed in what I loved to do. I wasn’t going to let my disability stand in my way.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

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

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.

A lot of people don’t like to win. They actually don’t know how to win, and they don’t like to win because down deep inside they don’t want to win.

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

A minute of success pays for years of failure.

If I had to select one quality and one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick persistence I and determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, “Here comes number seventy one”.

The rich. You know why they’re so odd? Because they can afford to be.

I’ve always won, and I’m going to continue to win. And that’s the way it is.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.