Following Crowd Quotes

#1. When a long-term trend loses it's momentum, short-term volatility tends to rise. It is easy to see why that should be so: the trend-following crowd is disoriented.

George Soros

#2. The only certainty about following the crowd is that you will all get there together.

Mychal Wynn

#3. Sometimes you look back at girls you spent money on rather than send it to your mum & you realise witchcraft is real

Robert Mugabe

#4. I have a nice following in Boston. The Boston crowd is very hip.

Tracy Morgan

#5. Don't just jump into action just because people are taking action. Know and understand the next real action and reaction that will follow the action before you take any action.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#6. The best opportunities are often ones where you're being contrarian. That doesn't mean being contrarian for contrarian's sake, but it means you're thoughtful about the risks of following the crowd.

David Sze

#7. After following the crowd for a while, I'd then go 180 degrees in the exact opposite direction. It always worked for me.

Elliott Erwitt

#8. [T]here comes a point where the fear is too great and the human spirit just gives up and a child wanders off numb and directionless and ends up following a crowd and watching a killing.

Hilary Mantel

#9. But sometimes, when she'd be all by herself, walking home late in the evening on a crowded street she'd be afraid of her own shadow following her ...

Sanhita Baruah

#10. If you're always following the crowd, you will never truly know who you are. Walk your own path.

Julian Pencilliah

#11. We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands.

Malala Yousafzai

#12. For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them.

James Surowiecki

#13. I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following - and have heard the crowd cheer me instead.

Babe Ruth

#14. The genre of television that I love and watch is so vast. There's not one type of thing I love.

Bridget Regan

#15. I couldn't find my cup of tea.
So probably, I've been simply taking a sip from everyone else's cup. May be it shouldn't matter as long as there is tea to drink. Or should it?

Sanhita Baruah

#16. This gambling habit is the curse of a thief's life.

Jack Black

#17. One of my gripes about movies is that people take them so seriously, and the moneymaking aspects are so brutal.

Bill Murray

#18. As someone who understands why you did this, and admires your ability to actually accomplish it, I am-pleading with you. Cinder. Please. Take me back."
She filled up her lungs. "No.

Marissa Meyer

#19. Kind people are brave people. Brave is not something you should wait to feel. Brave is a decision. It is a decision that compassion is more important than fear, than fitting in, than following the crowd.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#20. I want to be prophetic and take stands and stand with those on the margins, and I want to laugh as much as I can.

Greg Boyle

#21. What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.

Thomas Mann

#22. Society tells me to follow my own truth, but I don't let society tell me what to do. If you need someone to tell you that, chances are you're part of the crowd that will move on to the next fashion that comes around.

Criss Jami

#23. If you can laugh at your mistakes, it's a good thing.

Ozzy Osbourne

#24. The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never.

Immanuel Kant

#25. When I went to college, we had a very good local following, but stations only televised two or three NCAA games a season. And when I went to Europe, once in a while we had a good crowd, but usually not.

Sue Wicks

#26. Chances are, if you are following the crowd, you're following the wrong path.

Bob Proctor

#27. They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that crowd of stories through which all of us, following our own destinies, had to push and shove to find our way through, or out.

Salman Rushdie

#28. The intelligent investor is likely to need considerable will power to keep from following the crowd.

Benjamin Graham

#29. Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#30. Under friends I just understand people which share the same ideas and thoughts which will mean.... Ops my mistake... I was just looking are you following or you like because of the crowd?

Deyth Banger

#31. It is not enough to call yourself a 'free thinker' just because you can change your beliefs. A whole mess of people change their beliefs based on what is fashionable rather than what is factual, which, by always following the crowd, would be the complete opposite of the beauty of a free thinker.

Criss Jami

#32. No one achieves great things by following the crowd. Have a spine. Strike your own path.

Robert Kiyosaki

#33. I was a litigation lawyer, following the crowd off the proverbial cliff, when I pressed the pause button.

Robin S. Sharma

#34. Leo frowned at the giant's spire. "Can't we blow it up or something?"
"Without me, you do not have the power," Hera said. "You might as well try to destroy a mountain."
"Done that once today," Jason said.

Rick Riordan

#35. I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality.

Portia De Rossi

#36. Or about how when you're a child, to stop you from following the crowd you're assaulted with the line "If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?" but when you're an adult and to be different is suddenly a crime, people seem to be saying, "Hey. Everyone else is jumping off a bridge. Why aren't you?

Steve Toltz

#37. You and I were created by God to be so much more than normal ... Following the crowd is not a winning approach to life. In the end it's a loser's game, because we never become who God created us to be by trying to be like everybody else.

Tim Tebow

#38. Nature was constrained. Disorder was channeled, it seemed, into patterns with some common underlying theme.

James Gleick