Peer Effect Quotes

It really is true that you become an average of the people you spend the most time with.

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.

The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.

You are who you surround yourself with. I know that's such a cliche quote, but it's true.

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

When I was about 12, I was studying Chinese and ballet with my brother, and one morning Jonathan said to me, 'I don't think I'm going to go to ballet class anymore,' and I looked at him and said, 'You know, I don't think I'm going to go to Chinese class anymore.'

You're the average of the five people you spend your time with.

I started in engineering, where I think I could have happily remained and, who knows, made a bundle as a civil engineer or mechanical engineer. But more of my friends happened to be majoring in physics than engineering, so I switched over. No more compelling reason than that.

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Surround yourself with a bunch of like-minded people, and you'll soak up their habits like a starved sponge. Fat people with fat friends care less about their weight.

People see me doing something so all of the guys from my walk of life feel like if he can do it, I can do it. That just keeps spreading and spreading and spreading.

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

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.

You will never outperform your inner circle.

For a woman a man will do many things that he'd turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he'd back away from, nine times out of ten, even when drunk adn with a bunch of his friends egging him on.

Teens find out a lot from other teens.

You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.

It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.

I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.

I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

Essentially, if you are surrounded by those who 'outrank' you, it is likely to affect your identity in insidious ways.

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?

Kids get influenced by other kids.