Quotes About Contrarian

The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilization are anti-liberal and anti-bourgeois.

I'm here to be the guy that rubs people the wrong way sometimes.

I love baseball. As a teenager, I was a contrarian and picked the underdog instead of just rooting for the Yankees. It's a hard team to root for, but there's something that always keeps me hopeful.

Truth is for the minority.

If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.

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 is that technology matters more.

Charlie Ledley—curiously uncertain Charlie Ledley—was odd in his belief that the best way to make money on Wall Street was to seek out whatever it was that Wall Street believed was least likely to happen, and bet on its happening.

I'm against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.

To be a good investor, you have to think differently from others.

I like being irritating.

The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? You may say the wisest thing you can, old man—you who have lived seventy years, not without honor of a kind—I hear an irresistible voice which invites me away from all that. One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

I don't think of myself as a trendy person at all, and if I'm anything, I'm probably contrarian.

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, ignoring sunk costs, taking luck into account, and listening to one's inner voice. Weaving these traits together is an art itself. When it is done well, the result is a thing of beauty and a powerful tool for effective leadership.

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

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

If I hear someone say something, and they're 100 per cent about it, then it's almost inevitable that I'll take the opposite view. I guess I feel at odds with things like society. Absolutism is always a trigger for me.

A contrarian at heart, I am often guided by what I disagree with and don't want.

How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?

Hopefully people are upset for the reason I want them to be upset. Even when I was doing open mics, I've always had people upset. I've never been the consummate crowd-pleaser.

They were contrarian," Epstein would later say of the Google founders. "They rejected everything that smacked of traditional marketing wisdom." Larry and Sergey had their own spin on spin. In 1999, at Burning Man (the posthippie festival in Death Valley that Page and Brin regularly attended), they'd been impressed that someone had projected a laser image onto a nearby hill. Wouldn't it be great, they asked Epstein, if we could laser google onto the moon?

As I've had occasion to say before, I'm a pretty anti-sociable Socialist.

Niente è giusto. Al massimo si può sperare che sia logico. E' questo che succede diventando grandi? Si smette di credere nelle cose, come lei? No. Via via che si invecchia, la maggior parte della gente continua a credere a sciocchezze generalmente sempre più grandi. Io vado controcorrente perchè mi piace girarmi i pollici.

Different, not opposite. That's the key to using professional forecasts—and the key to being a contrarian.

Haven't you heard? Constipation is the new black. All the cool kids are doing it. Or not doing it.