Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you. — Margaret Thatcher
Following the herd, average performance, extremes — Howard Marks
Everyone's like sheep on social media; like, one person starts making noise, and everyone's like, 'Hey, yeah!' and then you got a whole bunch of people making noise at you. — Earl Sweatshirt
Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate. — Bruce Lee
Most days, we'd rather be wrong with the crowd than be right by ourselves. — James Clear
Following what everyone else is doing is rarely a way to get rich. — Jim Rogers
Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean. — Charlie Munger
If all you do is follow the herd, you'll just be stepping in poop all day — Wayne Dyer
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
There comes a time as an artist, can't follow the crowd. You have to do YOU, and make the crowd follow you. — Bob Marley
Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong. — Charles Bukowski
There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause. — P. J. O'Rourke
It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone. — Hans Froði Hansen
People tend to want to follow the beaten path. The difficulty is that the beaten path doesn't seem to be leading anywhere. — Charles Mathias
Short Following The Crowd Quotes
it's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone — Mahatma Gandhi
Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Herd psychology, conformity, capitulation — Howard Marks
In crowds it is stupidity and not mother wit that is accumulated. — Gustave Le Bon
If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd. — Edward De Bono
Everybody is doing the same old thing. — Missy Elliot
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. — Eric Hoffer
Whenever we are unsure how to act, we look to the group to guide our behavior. — James Clear
Don't join an easy crowd; you won't grow. — Jim Rohn
It's better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction. — Diane Grant
Following The Crowd Image Quotes
A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself. — Loretta Young
The woman who follows the crowd will usually go on further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.
Not Following The Crowd Quotes
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
I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowled — Bruce Lee
The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony. — Confucius
The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.
Follow Your Bliss. Not someone else’s idea of your bliss. Not what you think should be your bliss. Not what you think would impress the crowd or appease the family. Your BLISS. What truly gets you giddy. — Brian Johnson
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
But successful investors tend to be not too self-destructive. They tend to be patient, they tend not to follow the crowd, and they tend not to be too guilty about winning. — Andrew Tobias
Dont follow the crowd. Let the crowd follow you.
A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades. Warning him that these could not be held against the troops, that he had better keep way, he received this reply, " I must follow them. I am their leader." — Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Sometimes, when a person gains a lot of success at a very young age, they become targets, and it's really easy to follow the crowds and not make independent decisions based on truly how you feel. — Dane Cook
Crowds of men are like crowds of sheep. Not the best, but the first leader is usually followed. — Frederick Schiller Faust
I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention! — Charles Lamb
The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before. — Albert Einstein
A person without conviction is a weak, jellyfish type of individual who mindlessly follows the crowd. — Rick Warren
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
Don't follow the crowd. Let the crowd follow you.
You don’t become unstoppable by following the crowd, you get there by doing something better than anyone else can do it, and proving every day why you are the best at what you can do. — Tim Grover
No one achieves great things by following the crowd. Have a spine. Strike your own path. — Robert Kiyosaki
It is a decision that compassion is more important than fear, than fitting in, than following the crowd. — Glennon Melton
The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been. — Albert Einstein
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
The intelligent investor is likely to need considerable will power to keep from following the crowd. — Benjamin Graham
Don’t follow the crowd and don’t overstress diversification. — Philip Arthur Fisher
I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude. — Bruce Lee
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
Diligent follow-up and follow-through will set you apart from the crowd and communicate excellence. — John C. Maxwell
Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it. — Rick Warren
Chances are, if you are following the crowd, you're following the wrong path. — Bob Proctor
A few days before the [Mr. America] contest we heard rumors about a man who had throngs of people following him along the Lake Michigan Beach front, and we couldn't imagine who could draw crowds by merely walking along the beach! — George Eiferman
Advice ... is a habit-forming drug. You give a dear friend a bit of advice today, and next week you find yourself advising two or three friends, and the week after, a dozen, and the week following, crowds! — Carolyn Wells
Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by a crowd. — Unknown
Courage is......following your conscience instead of "following the crowd." Sacrificing personal gain for the benefit of others. Speaking your mind even though others don't agree. Taking complete responsibility for your actions and your mistakes. Doing what you know is right, regardless of the consequence. — Eric Harvey
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
Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty. — Denis Waitley
The woman who follows the crowd will usually believe that I said this. — Albert Einstein
Working with passion is an engine that is unbelievable. A person with drive and passion does three times the job of another person. But it is not so much the quantity of the job; that is not the point. The point is that they draw crowds; they have followers; they push, and lead, and so achieve much more. — Dov Seidman
Launch your vessel, And crowd your canvas, And, ere it vanishes Over the margin, After it, follow it, FollowThe Gleam. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Don't be the moth. Be the light bulb.' When I say that I mean don't follow the crowd. Just shine. Be the light bulb. Do your thing. Pave your own path. — Sara Paxton
It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it. — Mark Twain
The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd. — R. S. Donnell
The only certainty about following the crowd is that you will all get there together. — Mychal Wynn
The Volunteer AT dawn, he said, I bid them all farewell,To go where bugles call and rifles gleam.And with the restless thought asleep he fell,And glided into dream.A great hot plain from sea to mountain spread, -Through it a level river slowly drawn:He moved with a vast crowd, and at its headStreamed banners like the dawn.There came a blinding flash, a deafening roar,And dissonant cries of triumph and dismay;Blood trickled down the river's reedy shore,And with the dead he lay.The morn broke in upon his solemn dream,And still, with steady pulse and deepening eye,Where bugles call, he said, and rifles gleam,I follow, though I die! — Elbridge Jefferson Cutler
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has — Alan AshleyPitt
The dragonets found the carpenters to be even more fascinating than the furniture, and followed the poor men from pen to pen, crowding around to watch, tasting the wooden planks, trying to steal the tools. It made for an interesting day for everyone, as the boys tried to keep the dragonets away from the carpenters, and the dragonets tried to get at the carpenters, and the carpenters worked probably a great deal faster than they ever had in their lives, sure that the dragonets would go from tasting the wood to tasting them. — Mercedes Lackey
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