Quotes About Following The Crowd

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

Benjamin Graham

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

Bob Proctor

#3. 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

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

Mychal Wynn

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

Julian Pencilliah

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

Robin S. Sharma

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

Robert Kiyosaki

#12. 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

#13. Even if we're far apart, let's have hope and keep working hard.

Yoochun

#14. 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

#15. If the corporations have their way, the Earth will be killed, and that's in your lifetime. It's revolting to me that students are being trained to work in corporations. It's obscene to me that the corporations are running the world. We've got to get cross. Anger is an appropriate emotion.

Helen Caldicott

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. Her life was split. Both day and night were competing for her.

Milan Kundera

#19. 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

#20. [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

#21. 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

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

Tracy Morgan

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. Lightsong met the man's eyes, then smiled broadly, looking down at the God King. "My life to yours," Lifesong said. "My breath become yours.

Brandon Sanderson

#26. But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant

Jeffrey Eugenides

#27. Don't be afraid to fall in love again. Open your heart and follow where it leads you ... and remember, shoot for the moon.

Cecelia Ahern

#28. The affair between Margot Asquinth and Margot Asquinth will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.

Dorothy Parker

#29. Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.

Anselm Kiefer

#30. 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

#31. You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre can do.

Stephen Daldry

#32. People think I built the Pack, because I'm the guy who has the welfare of all shapeshifters in mind. They're wrong. Everything I built, I did so that when I mate and have children, nobody can touch my family. ( ... ) I built all this so I can protect you.

Ilona Andrews

#33. 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

#34. As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child.

Melinda Gates

#35. 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