Follow the Leader Quotes

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.

It's not easy being number two. As a marketer, you have limited choices - you can pretend you're not defined by the market leader, or, you can embrace your position and go directly after your nemesis.

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

When one person does something that works, everyone else wants to do it. So it didn't surprise me at all to see people come with different versions of 'American Idol' and a lot of them are exactly the same but with different twists.

The majority of business people are sheeple.

Some years ago one oil company bought a fertilizer company, and every other major oil company practically ran out and bought a fertilizer company. And there was no more damned reason for all these oil companies to buy fertilizer companies, but they didn't know exactly what to do, and if Exxon was doing it, it was good enough for Mobil and vice versa.

They all want to be me. They do! What everybody else says they will do, I've already been doing. They all want to be me. It's become a joke in Congress how Dr. Gingrey and Mr. Kingston have been following my votes. They've even changed votes to what I voted, multiple times. Members of Congress are laughing about it.

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

Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it.

When you're not the lead, you don't have as many restrictions.

Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going.

Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.

So, naturalists observe, a flea Hath smaller fleas that on him prey ;, And these have smaller still to bit 'em ;, And so proceed ad infinitum. Thus every poet, in his kind, Is bit by him that comes behind.

I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products.

It's a copycat league.

You can't always be a leading lady.

I think the greatest way to learn is to learn by someone's example.

On the dance floor, as much as you say, 'Ladies, you are the car. He is the driver. You can only go where he takes you,' they still try to be in control.

Because my brother liked Michigan, I liked Michigan, and by the nature of that, I didn't like Ohio State.

Bollywood goes through these phases. Whatever makes money is quickly lapped up by all. They all want to play safe.

No matter what you do, people are gonna try to emulate you. Whether it's a dunk by Michael Jordan or a swing by Ken Griffey Jr., kids are doing the same things.

My brother was playing hockey, tennis, badminton... I basically copied everything he did.