A Quote by David Sze

The best opportunities are often ones where you're being contrarian. That doesn't mean being contrarian for contrarian's sake, but it means you're thoughtful about the risks of following the crowd.

David Sze

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David Sze
American - Businessman

It’s actually pretty easy to be contrarian. It’s hard to be contrarian and right.

Reid Hoffman

To be a contrarian, you've got to be a contrarian against your own people.

James Carville

When everyone is a contrarian, nobody is a contrarian

Mark Skousen

As an investor-entrepreneur, I’ve always tried to be contrarian, to go against the crowd, to identify opportunities in places where people are not looking.

Peter Thiel

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

Peter Thiel

I mean, I'm not a contrarian.

Lorenzo di Bonaventura

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

Peter Thiel

Thinking about how disturbingly herdlike people become in so many different contexts - mimetic theory forces you to think about that, which is knowledge that's generally suppressed and hidden. As an investor-entrepreneur, I've always tried to be contrarian, to go against the crowd, to identify opportunities in places where people are not looking.

Peter Thiel

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

Warren Buffett

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

Rebecca Solnit

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

Elizabeth Warren

To succeed as a contrarian you must recognize what the crowd believes, have concrete justification for why the majority is wrong, and have the patience and conviction to stick with what is, by definition, an unpopular bet.