Quote by Ronald A. Heifetz

We are all born with a powerful herd instinct and it can force otherwise rational people to act in inexplicable ways.

— Paul Rusesabagina

“Movements don’t emerge because everyone suddenly decides to face the same direction at once. They rely on social patterns that begin as the habits…

— Charles Duhigg

“Most people chase success. Aligned people attract it.”

— Itayi Garande

Cultural institutions by and large share one primary objective: herd control. Even when ostensibly benign, their propensity for manipulation, compartmentalization, standardization and suppression of…

— Tom Robbins

All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.

— Bernard Baruch

“Such is the psychology of crowds that the majority will follow whoever appeared to be in power...”

— Miklós Bánffy

Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.

— Charlie Munger

“Among peoples who possess a highly developed pugnacious instinct we find the greatest progress in the arts, sciences, social and political organization, commerce and…

— Holly Estil Cunningham

“Our era is one in which individualism has been submerged by the herd-like mentality of a society where conformity, mediocrity and lowered expectations are…

— Brian J. D'Souza

“Nothing unites a community so much as common cause against an external enemy, yet, in the same moment, that enemy becomes the essential support…

— Alan W. Watts

I could never understand the herd mentality. I have always fought to do things my way and have stuck to that.

— Tabu

“As a social animal, we have a deeply rooted desire to belong to a social group—a preferred tribe, if you will.”

— David DiSalvo