Surrounding yourself with great people

[Topkwak]

Hi all - I have a quick question about being around great people.

I'm a big believer that you perform and behave like the five people you spend most of your time with.

Next month I'm leaving my job in M&A, one of the best (if not the best) independent mid-market M&A advisory firm in the UK. I'm leaving to go self-employed so working from home and remotely. I'll be providing research services on smaller transactions, this enables me to spend more time on my recently started company, which I one day hope to be my main source of income. Anyway...

The firm I currently work for is full of great people, top people to be around - hard working, entrepreneurial, fun, knowledgeable, great personalities etc.

One of main concerns of when I go self-employed is that I won't be around this group anymore, some of which make up 3/4 spaces of the top 5 people I spend most time with.

Is anyone else a believer in this or at the very least conscious of this theory? How do you make sure you're around great people which push you / your business / help you learn etc.?

 

[HazelC]

I follow this too - I genuinely feel you are like the 5 people you spend the most of your time with.

 

[mitch@volume]

I believe in a similar outlook:

Trust and character I need around me. Who you choose to be around you lets you know who you are.
not sure if I've quoted anyone in particular there but its something I remember

But I hope I am not LIKE the people I am around, as the bloke I sit opposite most days is a bit of a t!t

I have a certain circle of friends who either own or run businesses or they are creative types, and its these people I know I can meet up with to get my fix of business chat. - but they are not my 'main circle'

maybe this is why small business owners go to these business breakfast etc

 

[Funding for Communities]

Hi

You become the average of the people you spend most time with. I have had my own businesses since 1986 and the answer is simple. If someone is negative don't mix with them. This applies to family as well as socially. Yes it can be difficult but if you want to be positive it's the answer.

Mike

 

[Pish_Pash]

I've had 5 wives....I'm as miserable as sin.

 

[snakeeyes121]

sounds like something somebody from some faceless corporate team building course would say.

What utter twaddle.

 

[Twinkle Toes]

Hi all - I have a quick question about being around great people.

I'm a big believer that you perform and behave like the five people you spend most of your time with.

Next month I'm leaving my job in M&A, one of the best (if not the best) independent mid-market M&A advisory firm in the UK. I'm leaving to go self-employed so working from home and remotely. I'll be providing research services on smaller transactions, this enables me to spend more time on my recently started company, which I one day hope to be my main source of income. Anyway...

The firm I currently work for is full of great people, top people to be around - hard working, entrepreneurial, fun, knowledgeable, great personalities etc.

One of main concerns of when I go self-employed is that I won't be around this group anymore, some of which make up 3/4 spaces of the top 5 people I spend most time with.

Is anyone else a believer in this or at the very least conscious of this theory? How do you make sure you're around great people which push you / your business / help you learn etc.?

Read what you have written.

If you need people around you then you will fail as ""self"" employed". Stay in employment if it's not to late.

If you missed it the clue is in "SELF employed".

And for the love of God don't consider a LTD.

 

[Marcus Allen]

I do get a bit lonely but I do find that the people I associate with in online circles encourages me to persevere. So I'm a strong believer in this average of your friends. but I have become a bit of a recluse. lol