Social Proof Quotes

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.

Somebody with a billion followers can tweet, 'See my movie,' and it can still tank. Followers don't always translate into success because I think people are too savvy. When something takes off, it's because people are connecting to it - not because someone with a lot of followers says to care about it.

Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know it.

One must not mistake majority for truth.

And everyone knows you can’t disprove a rumor.

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

Nothing influences people more than are commendation from a trusted friend.

Any stupid remark, quoted often enough, becomes gospel.

It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.

One thing we seem to be missing is that just as we no longer search for the news, the news finds us today (e.g. this article found me) we will no longer search for products and services, rather we will look to our social graph to what products and services they like and don't like.

If something is not immediately and vigorously denied, and is repeated over and over again, it becomes a fact because it ends up on Google.

Millions of followers doesn't equal millions of dollars.

There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.

The key to moving a maybe to a yes is to make the buyer feel as though other buyers have already said yes. ... It helps if it's true, but it never is. No one wants to be the first yes. Why is this? I don't know, but I think it's anthropological.

Comments are proof most people don't read the articles.

Citizens have long been easily influenced by the opinions of others and sought social proof, but social media have amplified the phenomena to unprecedented heights. As digital devices permeate every aspect of our lives, it has boosted the way in which information can distort truth.

People influence people. Nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a trusted friend. A trusted referral influences people more than the best broadcast message. A trusted referral is the Holy Grail of advertising.

If somebody tweets 'I like Coca-Cola,' does that mean that they're actually going to buy Coca-Cola? One can? Two cans? Three cans? If they retweet someone else's Tweet, does that mean they're going to buy it?

Everybody's doing it. When I'm performing and I do the Dougie, the fans lose their minds.

The biggest thing is to create a product that consumers find useful. As more and more people like something, it becomes harder and harder to have a conspiracy theory about it.

Well the open-outcry auction is just made to turn the brain into mush: you've got social proof, the other guy is bidding, you get reciprocation tendency, you get deprival super-reaction syndrome, the thing is going away... I mean it just absolutely is designed to manipulate people into idiotic behavior.

It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health.

A huge number of women are shopping for beauty products based on recommendations from friends, and we really look to be that friend.

When you think about Uber and Airbnb and the other companies that are turning things upside down, Uber isn't big 'cause they ran a lot of ads. They're big because someone took out their iPhone and said to their friend, watch this, and pressed a button and a car pulled up.