Lois Frankel Quotes

But there's one thing about quitters you have to guard against - they are contagious. If one boy goes, the chances are he'll take somebody with him, and you don't want that. So when they would start acting that way, I used to pack them up and get them out, or embarrass them, or do something to turn them around.

When we find ourselves in groups or with charismatic individuals, we might do things we wouldn't ordinarily do.

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising.

You can sway an audience if you win the women over. The gentlemen will follow 'cause they can be so foolish like that at times, they are easily led.

A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

If the chief party ... be corrupt, you must follow their humor and indulge them, and in that case honesty and virtue are pernicious.

I am that such a wretched Custome as play to that excesse should be countenanc’d in a Court, which ought to be an example of Virtue to the rest of the kingdome.

It's contagious to do great. But once that one bad apple falls, everybody else will fall, and that's how it is.

Eddie had the perfect template of what not to do. His big brother did all the wrong things.

Because the players knew that if Billy asked them to jump off a roof, he'd jump off with them.

It was the first follower that transformed the lone nut into a leader.

Most people are sheep, and they need the support of others.

If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you're destined for failure.

The crowd will follow a leader who marches twenty paces ahead of them, but if he is a thousand paces ahead of them, they will neither see nor follow him.

The first follower is actually an underestimated form of leadership in itself. … The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader.

Leaders set the tone for their peers. Peers look up to them and say, 'They're doing it, so I'm doing it.'

Ultimately peer pressure can lead people to bully, but peer pressure can also say bullying is not acceptable.

we should think not only of what the leader does to the group, but also of what the group does to the leader.

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

We can convince ourselves to do things in conjunction with one another that we wouldn't have been able to do as an individual.

We found that we didn't have much problem with him [J.C.], it was his followers we found questionable.

Get rid of the friends who want you to spend your whole day doing nothing with them. They're not your friends. They're your enemies.

You can keep a bunch of crabs in a shallow container, and none of them will escape. Because as soon as one of 'em tries to climb out, the others pull him back in." -Hardy