A Quote by James Carville
To be a contrarian, you've got to be a contrarian against your own people.
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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.
When everyone is a contrarian, nobody is a contrarian
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.
When you're young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people receive what I do as small, personal films that are somewhat contrarian about their main characters.
My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth is that technology matters more.
I think what's always important is not to be contrarian for its own sake but to really get at the truth.
Go with your gut instincts even if it is contrarian to what the "experts" suggest.
I guess I much prefer the path of the contrarian: the guy who goes against the grain a bit. The careers of the people who I admire deeply - like the Coen brothers and Soderbergh - don't repeat themselves, and they make radically different films at times, and I think that's wonderful.
The way you advance a technological society is to try things - to be controversial and contrarian in your thinking in order to get to something that eventually people say, 'I told you it was a great idea.'
When your views are truly contrarian, they are inevitably uncomfortable. Courage and the ability to withstand pain are required.
The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent.
Whenever there's a big national event that brings the country together - whether it's the Olympics, a royal wedding or the 'Bake Off' final - there are inevitably a few contrarian voices speaking out against it.
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.
I have contrarian tendencies.
I am a contrarian.
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