Are you associating with the right people?

On the wisdom of associating with the right people, Orison Swett Marden, the black American writer associated with the New Thought Movement, has the following advice for you:

“Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely coloured by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, moulded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact with every day.”