Contrarian Quotes

27 quotes by 20 authors

To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path. — Michael Bloomberg
Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator. — Seth Klarman
The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent, — Seth Klarman
I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate. — Todd Barry
To succeed as a contrarian you must recognize what the crowd believes, have concrete justification for why the majority is wrong, and have the patience… — Whitney Tilson
The very act of becoming an entrepreneur is contrarian to middle class values, study hard, get a good job, be happy with secure income and… — Rashmi Bansal
The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself. — Peter Thiel
My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth… — Peter Thiel
Thinking about how disturbingly herdlike people become in so many different contextsâ€”mimetic theory forces you to think about that, which is knowledge thatâ€™s generally suppressed… — Peter Thiel
Ultimately the most profound problems with psychotherapy have always been that instead of possessing any contrarian or transcendent values to enable it to produce insights… — Kenny Smith
An awful lot of people keep a stock too long because it gives them warm fuzzies â€“ particularly when a contrarian stance has been vindicated.… — John Neff
When your views are truly contrarian, they are inevitably uncomfortable. Courage and the ability to withstand pain are required, — Michael Steinhardt
The wide multitude wanted to seem contrarian. It meant that this type of nonconformism had to be mass-produced. — Andy Warhol
So successful has the ideological-political-cultural purge been executed that it is hard indeed to find vigorous liberals, and no energetic, coherent and cogent leftists at… — Kenny Smith
"Cynicism," like "heresy" and "heterodoxy" and "atheism" and "agnosticism" and "paganism" and "heathenism," is above all else a way for organized orthodoxy's caste of official… — Kenny Smith
Itâ€™s actually pretty easy to be contrarian. Itâ€™s hard to be contrarian and right. — Reid Hoffman
If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth. — Peter Thiel
As an investor-entrepreneur, Iâ€™ve always tried to be contrarian, to go against the crowd, to identify opportunities in places where people are not looking. — Peter Thiel
I mean, I'm not a contrarian. — Lorenzo di Bonaventura
To its devotees the bowtie suggests iconoclasm of an Old World sort, a fusty adherence to a contrarian point of view. The bowtie hints at… — Warren St. John

Who Wrote These Contrarian Quotes

20 authors contributed a total of 27 Contrarian Quotes as follows: