Quotes About Contrarian

Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well.

When I see everyone rushing in one direction, I know it's time to move the other way.

Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.

One of the best places to look for value is what I call 'babies thrown out with the bathwater' - in other words, scour the most out-of-favour sectors for good companies whose stocks have been crushed due to overblown concerns about the industry that do not, in fact, have an impact on the company.

He was not a Babbitt, not a Rotarian, not an Elk, not a deacon.

I've always been in a rebel.

You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything.

Lou Reed was a hero because he was an anti-hero.

It's an interesting dynamic living in New York in general as a Boston fan. It's kind of fun that way. It's fun to be the contrarian when everyone hates you as long as your team is winning.

How can one not be fond of something that the Daily Mail despises?

countercantabrigianism.

I've made a career of being a contrarian. If I'm going to work with Tom Cruise, it's my instinct to be like, 'Well, I'm going to do the anti-Tom Cruise movie.'

There's this famous observation that I totally believe: Great startup ideas are the ones that lie in the intersection of the Venn diagram of 'is a good idea' and 'looks like a bad idea.' So you want most people to think it's a bad idea and thus not compete with you until you get giant. But for it to secretly be good.

185. It Is Getting So Dark I am the sort of person who approves of what others abhor and detests the things they like.

Value investing by its very nature is contrarian. Out-of-favor securities may be undervalued; popular securities almost never are. What the herd is buying is, by definition, in favor. Securities in favor have already been bid up in price on the basis of optimistic expectations and are unlikely to represent good value that has been overlooked.

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

Particular gift is the ability to ask such questions. For instance: If drug dealers make so much money, why do they still live with their mothers? Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What really caused crime rates to plunge during the past decade? Do real-estate agents have their clients' best interests at heart? Why do black parents give their children names that may hurt their career prospects? Do schoolteachers cheat to meet high-stakes testing.

I've always tended to play people who relish playing against the rules.

I guess I much prefer the path of the contrarian: the guy who goes against the grain a bit. The careers of the people who I admire deeply - like the Coen brothers and Soderbergh - don't repeat themselves, and they make radically different films at times, and I think that's wonderful.

My tastes lean toward the more negative, angry and eclectic.

As long as I'm in this city, I'm a lightning rod, ... People don't like me for a lot of reasons and I create all of them. I love it when they hate me. All my closest friends hate me.

Unlike most people, many of the best professional investors first get interested in a company when its share price goes down, not up.

Without putting words in anybody's mouth, I think that Roddy has a reputation for being a rebel. I don't think that's a big secret.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.