Contrarian Quotes

Most popular contrarian quotes

I buy stocks when the lemmings are headed the other way. - Warren Buffett quote.
I buy stocks when the lemmings are headed the other way.
Warren Buffett “Buffett Faces Shareholders,” Omaha World-Herald, May, 1986; Berkshire Hathaway 1986 annual meeting

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Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well. - Warren Buffett quote.
Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well.
Warren Buffett “Omaha’s Plains Dealer,” Newsweek, April, 1985

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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets. - John D. Rockefeller quote.
The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

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Markets are in a constant state of uncertainty and flux and money is to be made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

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In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable.

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The stock market's role is to prove the majority of investors wrong.

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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. - Woodrow Wilson quote.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

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Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream. - Malcolm Muggeridge quote.
Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

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We did it [Disneyland] in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster—closed and forgotten within the first year. - Walt Disney quote.
We did it [Disneyland] in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster—closed and forgotten within the first year.