Earl Nightingale Quotes

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

I use contrary-ism in every part of my life.

The opinion of the majority is not lightly to be rejected; but neither is it to be carelessly echoed.

When everybody goes left, I'm gonna go right most of the time.

You tell me what to do and I'll do the opposite.

The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.

so i do what i do best. i move in the opposite direction.

The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

I figured something out. And it is no secret what I figured out. Whatever the majority of people were doing, I found myself doing the opposite. I wanted to chase something great.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

I'm against fashionable thinking.

I always do the contrary of what my coaches tell me.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of 10 times.

I mean, I'm not a contrarian.

If I hear someone say something, and they're 100 per cent about it, then it's almost inevitable that I'll take the opposite view. I guess I feel at odds with things like society. Absolutism is always a trigger for me.

What fundamental biological principle gives the majority the right to think they are preserved from error?

“I would rather err with the majority than in my own way.” So thought Saint Augustine. I am of the reverse opinion.

Whatever the majority of people is doing, under any given circumstances, if you do the exact opposite, you will probably never make another mistake as long as you live.

The majority is never right, unless it includes me.

When you think about being contrarian, you have to think about - how is it that smart people will disagree with me, disagree with me ...from a position of intelligence, and there is something that I know that they don't know, that will actually in fact play out to be true.

Observe the masses and do the opposite

Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

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