Letitia Baldrige Quotes

Most people live their life around what other people do.

Men are herd animals, and prefer to go with the flow, especially when moving in the other direction is harsh.

We all feel the urge to conform; it is the most normal of human desires.

I was a bandwagon jumper. If everybody in high school listened to it, so did I.

When we find ourselves in groups or with charismatic individuals, we might do things we wouldn't ordinarily do.

Men are sheep. Where one goes, the rest will soon follow. -Lady Whistledown

The key to moving a maybe to a yes is to make the buyer feel as though other buyers have already said yes. ... It helps if it's true, but it never is. No one wants to be the first yes. Why is this? I don't know, but I think it's anthropological.

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.

Most of us are 'ultraconformists' when it comes to who we are most likely to follow... to socialise with, or even who we are most likely to hire.

When people are free to do as we please, they usually imitate each other.

In every generation, there's a strong tendency for everyone to think like everyone else.

People say things they'll never do but then do them because they want to be a part of 'this great thing.'

What is social proof? Put simply, it's the positive influence created when someone finds out that others are doing something. It's also known as informational social influence.

I don't like it when people spout about the popular opinion just to make it louder.

There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends.

We were born in this society, we grew up in this society. And we learn to be like everyone else, playing nonsense all the time.

Too bad your inner sheep never forgets to follow.

Many of those engaged in a lemming-like march to the sea are proud of their individualism.

Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press