No matter how ambitious you are. The people you move with influences your decision. Another thing to avoid is the pair of friends you keep if you really want to be successful in life. Being around so dumb a** will influence you to being limited. You feel there’s nothing wrong with being average.
But surrounding yourself with people who have so much idea and are eager to make progress in life. Automatically you see yourself having same mindset.
We think what he is trying to say here is that you need to be around people who are successful and that you can somehow manage with them, because for the most part successful people have their businesses, companies, jobs that employ others and that thought is good, it is good to Surround yourself with that type of people who will bet on our lives, I think that is where the saying comes from that says: "Tell me who you hang out with and I'll tell you who you are" that totally applies, plus it changes a person's mind a lot.