How Negative People Influence Your Success and Potential
If you spend time with losers, you will be a loser yourself.
Get away from the losers, get away from the no-hopers,
get away from the negative people because these people will drag you down
as surely as an anchor would drag you down if it was tied to your leg.
99% of the failure rate in life could be attributed to associating
with people who were going nowhere because we're so strongly influenced by the people around us.
We talk like them, we walk like them, we take on their attitudes,
their values, their beliefs, their expectations, even their self-concepts.
If we associate with negative people, critical people, cynical people, lazy people,
people who waste their time, we will become exactly like them.
Every one of us has the tendency to be like a chameleon.
We take on the colorings and the behaviors of the people around us.
So it's very important that you make a decision what you want to be like
and you begin to associate with people who are like that.
Do you want to fulfill your potential as a human being or not?
If you want to fulfill your potential as a human being, here's the facts.
I'm not making the facts up, I'm just telling you, here's the facts.
But if you associate with losers, you'll be a loser.
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