Contrarian Quotes
27 quotes by 20 authors
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To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path.
— Michael Bloomberg
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Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator.
— Seth Klarman
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The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent,
— Seth Klarman
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I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate.
— Todd Barry
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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
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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
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The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.
— Peter Thiel
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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
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Thinking about how disturbingly herdlike people become in so many different contexts—mimetic theory forces you to think about that, which is knowledge that’s generally suppressed…
— Peter Thiel
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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
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An awful lot of people keep a stock too long because it gives them warm fuzzies – particularly when a contrarian stance has been vindicated.…
— John Neff
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When your views are truly contrarian, they are inevitably uncomfortable. Courage and the ability to withstand pain are required,
— Michael Steinhardt
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The wide multitude wanted to seem contrarian. It meant that this type of nonconformism had to be mass-produced.
— Andy Warhol
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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
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"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
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It’s actually pretty easy to be contrarian. It’s hard to be contrarian and right.
— Reid Hoffman
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If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.
— Peter Thiel
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As an investor-entrepreneur, I’ve always tried to be contrarian, to go against the crowd, to identify opportunities in places where people are not looking.
— Peter Thiel
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I mean, I'm not a contrarian.
— Lorenzo di Bonaventura
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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: