Stefan Molyneux Quotes

Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association.

Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.

Mindsets are contagious. So choose the people you populate your life with extremely well.

You really need to be careful of who you hang out with and who you listen to. They can lead you down the wrong path.

If you want to fly with the eagles, don’t swim with the ducks!

If you run around with 9 losers pretty soon you'll be the 10th loser.

If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

Running with the wrong crowd will never help you.

You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out.

I really do believe in the influence of your surroundings.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

It's easy to have the wrong type of people around you.

If you are with five successful people, then you are the sixth successful person. The reverse of this is true as well, so who are you hanging out with?

I think you're a product of your influences, your environment. You see guys with so much talent, but they got the wrong people around them telling them the wrong things. They wind up going down the wrong path.

We are influenced by the ideas we hear and the people we meet.

When you surround yourself with the wrong people it's going to backfire every time.

The fact is, when you are young, if you are mingling with wrong people, you tend to be misguided. You tend to be brainwashed easily.

Every man is like the company he wont to keep.

The great danger of being around un-excellent people is that you start to become like them without even knowing it.

If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.

But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.

You become like the people you spend the most time with.

A good friend and a bad friend are like a perfume-seller and a blacksmith: The perfume-seller might give you some perfume as a gift, or you might buy some from him, or at least you might smell its fragrance. As for the blacksmith, he might singe your clothes, and at the very least you will breathe in the fumes of the furnace.

If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you're destined for failure.