Quotes About Contrarian

When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.

The way you advance a technological society is to try things - to be controversial and contrarian in your thinking in order to get to something that eventually people say, 'I told you it was a great idea.'

Not a 'Mad Men' guy. Never got into it. I'm kind of a contrarian that way. If something gets too popular too fast before I can get on it, I just get really annoyed. Everybody tells me I'm an idiot; it's supposed to be amazing. I saw some of the second season; I loved it, but I was just detached. I didn't get into it.

A born contrarian, Rockefeller insisted upon buying in declining markets and selling in rising ones.

born contrarian, Rockefeller insisted upon buying in declining markets and selling in rising ones. When accumulating a position, he bought stocks each time they declined an eighth of a point; when unwinding a position, he sold each time the stock rose an eighth of a point—a technique that gave him an average over an extended period.

Everything popular is wrong.

charts, yada yada. I hated this stuff, and the thought of trying to embrace it and make a living at it was anathema. So I decided that I'd go with my natural inclinations and oppose it. And a contrarian was born.

in the words of the father of contrary thinking, Humphrey Neil, "The crowd is most enthusiastic and optimistic when it should be cautious and prudent, and it is most fearful when it should be bold."7 On

Nearly every time I strayed from the herd, I've made a lot of money. Wandering away from the action is the way to find the new action.

I believe that Jesus wants our spiritual vision to be so clear that we can become spiritual contrarians: people who continue to believe when life is at its worst, people who keep faith though everyone around us loses faith, people who continue to obey no matter how high the cost.

I'm against fashionable thinking.

It requires strength of character in order to think and to act in opposite fashion from the crowd and also patience to wait for opportunities that may be spaced years apart.

Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

Optimist , n. A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

I use contrary-ism in every part of my life.

I don't have a manager or a publicist and am hardly seen at film parties. I am not ambitious.

I'm not going to say how I vote... I love that people make these assumptions about you because you work at Fox... That's my job: to be contrarian, to push people.

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house.

By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.

An outstanding person keeps oneself, more often than not, standing out of a discussion on a trending topic amongst the people.

When everybody goes left, I'm gonna go right most of the time.

Since I'm a contrarian, I don't want to go along with what everyone else thinks.

I am just a thorn in everybody's side.

The best opportunities are often ones where you're being contrarian. That doesn't mean being contrarian for contrarian's sake, but it means you're thoughtful about the risks of following the crowd.