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'Crowd folly', the tendency of humans, under some circumstances, to resemble lemmings, explains much foolish thinking of brilliant men and much foolish behavior - like investment management practices of many foundations represented here today. It is sad that today each institutional investor apparently fears most of all that its investment practices will be different from practices of the rest of the crowd.

Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

The blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.

Foolish people follow the system, get caught up in media news, what the government wants you to believe and all the higher powers want you to believe, and go down the same path as all the sheep in the cattle market.

There's so many lies being told throughout the media and people just run with the lies. They're numb to it. Too many followers, not enough leaders.

The one lesson I've learned from technology and food is the only time you know you're doing the wrong thing is when you're doing what everyone else is doing.

When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote

It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads, but no brains.

I've probably said a million times in my life something about, "All those people are just lemmings. They'd follow each other off a cliff." Well, no such thing.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will soon follow. -Lady Whistledown

The world chooses to think what the world thinks.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

Just because everybody else does something isn't a good enough reason to do anything.

Here is a man with the greatest intellect in Europe, and yet he debases it by simply following majorities and the crowd.

Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp; the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other.

Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own.

If you're doing what everyone else is doing, you're doing it wrong.

Because other people are fools, must you be so too?

Beware of advice about successful people and their methods. For starters, no two situations are alike. Your dreams of creating a dry-cleaning empire won't be helped by knowing that Thomas Edison liked to take naps.

If a mass movement turns into worshipping a particular person, that's a great problem.

Those who by form did see me and those who followed me by voice. Wrong the efforts they engaged in, those people will not see me.

An elephant always puts his foot into the hole which another elephant's foot has made so that a frequented track is nothing but a series of pits filled with mud and water.

First I went left, he did too. Then I went right, and he did too. Then I went left again, and he went to buy a hot dog.