Quotes About Contrarian

I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful

Our goal is more modest: We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

Be greedy when others are fearful, and fearful when others are greedy

I try to buy shares of unpopular companies when they look like road kill and sell them when they've been polished up a bit.

I am buying the most unpopular, most battered stocks, but then who knows?

Everything popular is wrong. —OSCAR WILDE, The Importance of Being Earnest

Most people go through life and never develop strong views on things, or specifically go along and buy into the consensus. One of the things I think you want to look for as both a founder and as an investor is things that are out of consensus, something very much opposed to the conventional wisdom. . . . Then, if you're going to start a company around

young Harry was known to his mother's staff as a contrarian who did the opposite of what he was told. As he grew up he became increasingly undisciplined. His father and his wider family watched helplessly as the boy refused to behave and rejected education. After he unsuccessfully tried to pass his entrance exam to Eton, his relations recognised that Harry's ignorance was spilling over into arrogance. That reality was concealed during Diana's funeral.

Wonderful," the Flatline said, "I never did like to do anything simple when I could do it ass-backwards.

The most important lesson to learn about devil's advocacy isn't the need for a formal contrarian position; it's the need to interpret criticism as a noble function.

I learned that people like my work because I praise things that others don't like.

I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how distilled could I make a life, and how I could cross what is kind of trivialized as a domestic novel with a novel of ideas, a philosophical novel.

Since I know how crazy this business is, I do the opposite of what I see other people doing.

I typically do the opposite of what people think I am going to do.

I buy when other people are selling.

I don't tweet or blog or order pizza with arugula on top. You won't find my mug on Facebook or Instagram. I don't have a life coach, an aroma therapist, or a manicurist, and I sure as hell don't do Pilates.

Fidelity to asset-allocation targets requires regular purchase of the out-of-favor and sale of the in-favor, demanding that investors exhibit out-of-the-mainstream, contrarian behavior.

By operating in the institutional mainstream of short-horizon, uncontroversial opportunities, committee members and staff ensure unspectacular results, while missing potentially rewarding longer term contrarian plays.

Let's not sit around and give each other hand-jobs.

Consider one of the most renowned interview questions of all time: "What is it you believe to be true that other smart people you know think is crazy?

A technique that works repeatedly is to wait until the prevailing opinion about a certain industry is that things have gone from bad to worse, and then buy shares in the strongest companies in the group.

'Ick investing' means taking a special analytical interest in stocks that inspire a first reaction of 'ick.' I tend to become interested in stocks that by their very names or circumstances inspire unwillingness - and an 'ick' accompanied by a wrinkle of the nose on the part of most investors to delve any further.

To enjoy a reasonable chance for continued better than average results, the investor must follow policies which are (1) inherently sound and promising, and (2) not popular on Wall Street.

When your views are truly contrarian, they are inevitably uncomfortable. Courage and the ability to withstand pain are required.