Quotes About Contrarians

#1. We're in the business not so much of being contrarians deliberately, but rather we like to take perceived risk instead of actual risk. And what I mean by that is that you get paid for taking a risk that people think is risky, you particularly don't get paid for taking actual risk.

Wilbur Ross

#2. They really can't afford to be contrarians. A major investment house can't afford to do research for five customers who won't generate a lot of commissions.

Peter Cundill

#3. Creepy Hollow?" He snorts. "Like Sleepy Hollow?"
"No, like Creepy Hollow. It has nothing to do with sleeping.

Rachel Morgan

#4. We need a smaller, leaner Washington. It won't happen if we raise taxes without any coinciding reform and serious slashing of spending.

David Harsanyi

#5. Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.

Elihu Root

#6. Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that Law rules all. And it is enough to
remember that law rules all.

Marcus Aurelius

#7. The folly at the root of this foolish economy began with the idea that a corporation should be regarded, legally, as "a person.

Wendell Berry

#8. Whenever you make a big decision in life, at least any decision
where you have a viable alternative, there is an inevitable uneasy aftermath.
Anxiety is merely a sign that you're taking something seriously.

Emily Giffin

#9. The most important thing we do is not doing.

Louis D. Brandeis

#10. Herbal medicine's been around for thousands of years! Indeed it has. And then we tested it all, and the stuff that worked became medicine. And the rest of it's just a nice bowl of soup and some pot pourri.

Dara O Briain