Quotes About Herd mentality

Value investing by its very nature is contrarian. Out-of-favor securities may be undervalued; popular securities almost never are. What the herd is buying is, by definition, in favor. Securities in favor have already been bid up in price on the basis of optimistic expectations and are unlikely to represent good value that has been overlooked.

most people are like sheep. Nice, harmless creatures who want nothing more than to be left alone so they can graze. But then of course there are wolves. Who want nothing more than to eat the sheep." He looked at his soup, then back to her. "But there's a third kind of person. The sheepdog. Sheepdogs have fangs like wolves. But their instinct isn't predation. It's protection. All they want, what they live for, is to protect the flock.

Running with the herd means we are quick to embrace the status quo, slow to change our minds, and happy to delegate our thinking.

But running with the herd means we are quick to embrace the status quo, slow to change our minds, and happy to delegate our thinking.

Memorable people do memorable things. Followers are seldom remembered. The herd mentality is the killer of innovation. When appropriate, be bold in your undertakings.

You ever hear about that experiment an American journalist did in Moscow in the 1970s? He just lined up at some building, nothing special about it, just a random door. Sure enough, someone got in line behind him, then a couple more, and before you knew it, they were backed up around the block. No one asked what the line was for. They just assumed it was worth it.

By the time everyone decides that a given industry is "obviously" the best one to invest in, the prices of its stocks have been bid up so high that its future returns have nowhere to go but down.

When enough people share a short-lived delusion, vast sums of money can be acquired overnight.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

the majority of people were sheep—gentle creatures largely incapable of protecting themselves. To

Morality is herd instinct in the individual.

Men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men.

It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fashions which the herd so diligently follow.

I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men, the former are so much the freer.

Journalists aren't known for their courage so much as their belief that there is safety in crowds.

I don't belong to any side. What's more, I think flags are nothing but painted rags that represent rancid emotions. Just seeing someone wrapped up in one of them, spewing out hymns, badges and speeches, gives me the runs. I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself

Ich habe mir immer gedacht, wer sich einer Herde angehörig zugehörig fühlt, hat etwas von einem Hammel.

People must be right sometimes, must feel good sometimes, or we'd never have a herd. They would just give up. The occasional rightness fosters false confidence, reinforcing the crowd's wisdom. It is plausible deniability for TGH. It is how TGH repeatedly sucks the crowd in, makes them ignore negatives, then doles out maximum pain and suffering.

In crowds it is stupidity and not mother-wit that is accumulated," Gustave Le Bon noted in his 1895 classic on crowd psychology.

Thinking is difficult. Therefore, let the herd pronounce judgement.

As members of a market, our behavior is invariable: we move as a herd, we mill and mill and mill around, and then all of a sudden we stampede.

I'd like to avoid the environmental apocalypse if I could. Zombies, robots - I don't know - I'd probably do alright hidden in the middle of the herd and sacrificing people to keep myself alive, but where you gonna hide when all the food is gone?

There is something like a switch in us that kills the individual in favor of the collective when people engage in communal dances, mass riots, or war. Your mood is now that of the herd. You are part of what Elias Canetti calls the rhythmic and throbbing crowd

what's more, he believed that collectively they were even bigger suckers than they were individually.