A contrarian at heart, I am often guided by what I disagree with and don't want. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
World-changing startups need to be premised on accurate contrarian theories. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
I have followed my heart my whole life - the crazy kid, a contrarian by nature, and I've been in trouble in… — Sarah Carter Copy Share Image
Go with your gut instincts even if it is contrarian to what the "experts" suggest. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
To be a contrarian, you've got to be a contrarian against your own people. — James Carville Copy Share Image
A contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Since I'm a contrarian, I don't want to go along with what everyone else thinks. — Akira Toriyama Copy Share Image
I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how distilled could… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
As an investor-entrepreneur, I’ve always tried to be contrarian, to go against the crowd, to identify opportunities in places where people are… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
An awful lot of people keep a stock too long because it gives them warm fuzzies – particularly when a contrarian stance… — John Neff Copy Share Image
I'm not going to say how I vote... I love that people make these assumptions about you because you work at Fox...… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools -… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Edward was the lone contrarian. He prided himself on not hoping, on not allowing his heart to lift inside of him. He… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Successful contrarian investing requires us to live with discomfort, for being "wrong" and alone. But bargains do not exist in the absence… — Robert D. Arnott Copy Share Image
No matter what I tend to be doing, generally people always think I'm crazy, first of all, because I'm always talking about… — Trip Hawkins Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the solution we were looking for is right next to us and it is far simpler than we thought. But we… — Anubhav Srivastava Copy Share Image
If you make a film and then two and a half, three years later, suddenly the country's changed and you look like… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
Not a 'Mad Men' guy. Never got into it. I'm kind of a contrarian that way. If something gets too popular too… — D.J. Cotrona Copy Share Image
None of this means, however, that a business or stock is an intelligent purchase simply because it is unpopular; a contrarian approach… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Let’s watch out for the unpredictability and the wildcat jumps of contrarian people, whose sole interests are soaring targets at high-speed, at… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Because even among contrarians, I’m a contrarian. But all of this is just words of bronze, third place rhetoric. What do I… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Decision making brings together many of the finest traits of contrarian leadership--thinking gray, thinking free, artful listening, delegating authority while retaining ultimate… — Steven B. Sample Copy Share Image
To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path. — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
“In public market investing, as in many things, you achieve big success when you’re both contrarian and right.” — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ben was really a contrarian but he didn't use those terms because he was really buying value. — Walter Schloss Copy Share Image
I consider myself able to stand in the minority if I think I'm right. So if I do that enough times, then… — Patrick Cantlay Copy Share Image
