Follow the Crowd Quotes

Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.

The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness.

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

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.

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.

People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.

Baseball regards us as sheep.

Our leaders are acting like lemmings.

To me, you don't want to go against the WWE Universe. You never want to do that. To me, what works is to go with the flow.

In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.

He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing

Never follow a follower who is following someone who has fallen. Its why the whole world is falling apart.

Record companies, they're just like lemmings.

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

When in doubt, look at what everyone else is doing.

Fortuna likes to find a crowd and follow it.

It's much better to say, "If the herd is running, I'm running with those guys." And humans have herd mentality.

I always look at everyone when we're on the street and think, 'We're like sheep or ants.'

Most of the time they buy what other people buy. They move in great schools, like bluefish, all identical. There is safety in numbers. If one wants Schnabel, they all want Schnabel, if one buys a Keith Haring, two hundred Keith Harings will be sold.

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.

I think it shows that if you have one group of people doing it, you'll get another group of people doing it.

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.