The Power of Association

[Metro Nomad]

The Power of Association is too real: "The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity. An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people. As you grow, your associates will change. Some of your friends will not want you to go on. They will want you to stay where they are. Friends that don't help you climb will want you to crawl. Your friends will stretch your vision or choke your dream. Those that don't increase you will eventually decrease you.

Consider this: Never receive counsel from unproductive people. Never discuss your problems with someone incapable of contributing to the solution, because those who never succeed themselves are always first to tell you how. Not everyone has a right to speak into your life. You are certain to get the worst of the bargain when you exchange ideas with the wrong person. Don't follow anyone who is not going anywhere. With some people you spend an evening: with others you invest it. Be careful where you stop to inquire for directions along the road of life. Wise is the person who fortifies his life with the right friendships. If you run with wolves, you will learn how to howl, but if you associate with eagles, you will learn how to soar to great heights.

"A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses." The simple but true fact of life is that you become like those with whom you closely associate - for the good and the bad. Note: Be not mistaken. This is applicable to family as well as friends".

-Colin Powell.

[Goosebeak]

Yeah, interesting topic that - if you spend some time down at the local pub, and listen to the regular patrons carefully, you'll find they all sing the same 'song':- "...if it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all..."
Birds of a feather and all that kind of thing - it's a cliche precisely because it IS so true...

Funnily enough, I was recently approached by somebody to 'buy into' a new software product (you know the kind of thing - "...it's not REALLY a pyramid scheme... and it's 110% legal...") and the hook they were using? Mark Shuttleworth's son is (apparently) one of the 'founders'...

Seems like it's not only your personal success that you guarantee with the right associations and connections - it's your company's success too...

Maybe I'm just turning into the grumpy old f@rt everybody always figured me for - but I'm getting to the stage where I figure that standing and/or falling by the fruits of my own labours and efforts is way better than riding to success on somebody else's coattails... Was just saying to my SWAMBO today that maybe I should become a hermit... But there are too many of those out there already, and I hate a crowd!
hehehe

[Metro Nomad]

Hi Goosebeak and welcome to the forum.

I trust that you will enjoy your new "home".

[F.Viljoen]

Association?

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