A Quote by Mark Skousen
When everyone is a contrarian, nobody is a contrarian
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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.
It’s actually pretty easy to be contrarian. It’s hard to be contrarian and right.
To be a contrarian, you've got to be a contrarian against your own people.
Since I'm a contrarian, I don't want to go along with what everyone else thinks.
"Why is everyone trying to tell me that when you get older it gets better?" I didn't believe it, because I'm so contrarian and suspicious of everything. And then to find that it's kind of true is nice.
I am a contrarian.
I have contrarian tendencies.
I was always a contrarian.
I mean, I'm not a contrarian.
It's an interesting dynamic living in New York in general as a Boston fan. It's kind of fun that way. It's fun to be the contrarian when everyone hates you as long as your team is winning.
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.
I have a slight contrarian impulse I can't seem to shake.
It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.
Value investing by its very nature is contrarian.
Contrarian thinking at its best simply asks, Is this really true? It speaks up when the politically correct answer or the conventional wisdom doesn't match reality - when things simply don't work the way everyone says they should.
I don't think of myself as a trendy person at all, and if I'm anything, I'm probably contrarian.
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