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I think what's always important is not to be contrarian for its own sake but to really get at the truth. — Peter Thiel

The only way to consistently stay ahead of the game is to adopt a long-term view and, if appropriate, with a strong contrarian spin. — Mark Mobius

I mean, I'm not a contrarian. — Lorenzo Di Bonaventura

It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days. — Reid Hoffman

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

I am a contrarian. — Barry Diller

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

It's actually pretty easy to be contrarian. It's hard to be contrarian and right. — Reid Hoffman

The urge to be contrarian was strong. If she set herself apart, perhaps she would be less of the person she feared she had become. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself. — Peter Thiel

Ben was really a contrarian but he didn't use those terms because he was really buying value. — Walter Schloss

In order to win as a contrarian, you need perfect timing and the perfect size. — Henrique M. Simoes

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

World-changing startups need to be premised on accurate contrarian theories. — Reid Hoffman

When everyone is a contrarian, nobody is a contrarian — Mark Skousen

To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path. — Michael Bloomberg

The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent, — Seth Klarman

A contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow-the-crowd strategy. What's required is thinking rather than polling. — Warren Buffett

I swim against the tide because I like to annoy. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate. — Todd Barry

I've never walked the same path other people found comfortable and I'm not going to start now. — Lora Leigh

I'll work with anyone - and I really do mean that - Democrat, Republican, independent, Libertarian, contrarian, vegetarian. — Elizabeth Warren

Successful contrarian investing requires us to live with discomfort, for being "wrong" and alone. But bargains do not exist in the absence of fear. — Robert D. Arnott

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

I have followed my heart my whole life - the crazy kid, a contrarian by nature, and I've been in trouble in points in my career. — Sarah Carter

Go with your gut instincts even if it is contrarian to what the "experts" suggest. — Jim Rohn

Value investing by its very nature is contrarian. — Seth Klarman

In public market investing, as in many things, you achieve big success when you're both contrarian and right. — Reid Hoffman

The wide multitude wanted to seem contrarian. It meant that this type of nonconformism had to be mass-produced. — Andy Warhol

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