Quotes About Herd mentality

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So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. They are momentum investors purchasing highly illiquid investments. That is a recipe for disaster.

The most dangerous thing is to buy something at the peak of its popularity. At that point, all favourable facts and opinions are already factored into its price and no new buyers are left to emerge

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Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

It was a well-known fact that humans became more addled than usual when running in herds.

joining the crowd is the only thing all men can do.

One of the saddest facts of the human condition is that most people follow the herd. Sometimes, of course, the herd is morally right. That, obviously, is the ideal. But most good is achieved by individuals who have the courage to part from the majority when it is morally wrong. In addition, people tend to act worse in groups than when alone. The herd, not to mention the mob, emboldens people to do bad things they would rarely do if they had no such support.

Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals -- for all that is admirable in man is the artificial product of special breeding.

Common man does not speculate about the great problems. With regard to them he relies upon other people's authority, he behaves as "every decent fellow must behave," he is like a sheep in the herd. It

There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and having a good time only an hour after a murder!

The simple people are trash. A herd of sheep that are good for shearing, but sometimes it's more profitable to slaughter them.

The group, the herd, which is any collection of children.

The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment

Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them.

You cannot lead and follow a herd at the same time.

The mainstream media act just like in the classic studies of herd animals; at the exact instant more than half of the herd makes a move to bolt, they all move.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men. If man were not a gregarious animal, the world might have achieved, by this time, some real progress towards civilisation. Segregate him, and he is no fool. But let him loose among his fellows, and he is lost—he becomes just an unit in unreason.

When most people come to believe the same thing, large gaps open up between price and value.

for a man is a Herdentier - an animal that always follows the herd, a gregarious animal - and quickly follow's its neighbour example.

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

Asking for money is a proclamation of your own unfitness for survival. It's saying, 'I am the weak one of the herd.

Charles Mackay argued that people "go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

In his classic work Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, published in 1841, Scottish journalist Charles Mackay argued that people "go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."1 People in crowds often act in thoughtless ways—shouting profanities, destroying property, throwing bricks, threatening others.