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More Contrarian Quotes

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• To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular… — 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
• To succeed as a contrarian you must recognize what the crowd believes, have concrete justification for why the majority is… — Whitney Tilson
• The very act of becoming an entrepreneur is contrarian to middle class values, study hard, get a good job, be… — 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… — Peter Thiel
• Thinking about how disturbingly herdlike people become in so many different contexts—mimetic theory forces you to think about that, which… — Peter Thiel
• Ultimately the most profound problems with psychotherapy have always been that instead of possessing any contrarian or transcendent values to… — Kenny Smith
• An awful lot of people keep a stock too long because it gives them warm fuzzies – particularly when a… — 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

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