Quotes About Contrarian

I hated Led Zeppelin at school.

When I die, I want to be the only person in the world not to have seen 'The Sound Of Music.'

If you hear a prominent economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.

Are you anti-black? I'm anti-everything.

I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything.

It felt good not to be part of that sort of thing. I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.

If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking.

If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

In addition to going against the herd, you've said one of your techniques is to set yourself outside the process. What do you mean exactly? How do you get outside? I am outside. I am a thinking participant and thinking means putting yourself outside the subject you think about. Perhaps it comes easier to me than to many others because I have a very abstract mind and I actually enjoy looking at things, including myself, from the outside.

I've actually always wanted to write like a one-person show that was sort of a romantic comedy - a show that was kind of cynical about romance and marriage but ultimately embraced it. Because I feel like comedy is always cynical, inherently, because it's contrarian.

I am something of a contrarian, I suppose. I feel less comfortable when everybody agrees with me. I say, 'I better reexamine my position!' I probably believe that the worst opinions in my court have been unanimous. Because there's nobody on the other side pointing out all the flaws.

Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.

The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time, to have a view that is at variance with the present consensus and bet that view.

The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.

My businesses are usually built around challenging conventional wisdom, so I tend to gain by taking the other side. It's been very profitable and entertaining for me

Dont get married, just find someone you dont like and buy them a house.

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

You just say the opposite to what everyone else thinks. Is that why people think you're so clever?

Every show needs a jerk. I guess I'm that guy.

The key to getting hired is to understand the narrative of the customer's life in such rich detail that you are able to design a solution that far exceeds anything the customer themselves could have found words to request. In hindsight, breakthrough insights might seem obvious, but they rarely are. In fact, they're fundamentally contrarian: you see something that others have missed.

Contrarian thinking doesn't make any sense unless the world still has secrets left to give up.

I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.

Everything popular is wrong.

I think my blunt and contrary nature helps my science, because I don't simply accept things just because other people believe it