I have a very serious contrarian streak.

I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how distilled could I make…

— Jenny Offill

Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator.

— Seth Klarman

I am something of a contrarian, I suppose. I feel less comfortable when everybody agrees with me. I say, 'I better reexamine my position!'…

— Antonin Scalia

I have a slight contrarian impulse I can't seem to shake.

— John F. Kennedy Jr

“Decision making brings together many of the finest traits of contrarian leadership--thinking gray, thinking free, artful listening, delegating authority while retaining ultimate responsibility,artful procrastination,…

— Steven B. Sample

To be a contrarian, you've got to be a contrarian against your own people.

— James Carville

“Let’s watch out for the unpredictability and the wildcat jumps of contrarian people, whose sole interests are soaring targets at high-speed, at all costs…

— Erik Pevernagie

None of this means, however, that a business or stock is an intelligent purchase simply because it is unpopular; a contrarian approach is just…

— Warren Buffett

When the things in front of you in life reveal how messed up the system is, you lose faith in the system pretty quickly.…

— Jalen Rose

The very act of becoming an entrepreneur is contrarian to middle class values, study hard, get a good job, be happy with secure income…

— Rashmi Bansal

When your views are truly contrarian, they are inevitably uncomfortable. Courage and the ability to withstand pain are required,

— Michael Steinhardt

“Defending unpopular positions is what lawyers do”

— Paul Clement

It’s actually pretty easy to be contrarian. It’s hard to be contrarian and right.

— Reid Hoffman

Contrarian thinking at its best simply asks, Is this really true? It speaks up when the politically correct answer or the conventional wisdom doesn't…

— Larry Osborne

I have contrarian tendencies.

— George T. Conway III