Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.

The remark contrasts fair‑weather friendship with the rarer loyalty that persists through setbacks. It suggests that success attracts opportunistic closeness—people who want proximity to status, access, or reflected glory—while failure tests whether relationships are grounded in genuine care. The second sentence turns the observation into advice: choose companions with whom you can be vulnerable, take risks, and recover from mistakes without humiliation or abandonment. In effect, it frames trust as the ability to fail safely in front of others, and it treats one’s social circle as a practical component of resilience and long-term achievement.