Beat the Crowd Quotes

“In investing, the crowd is wrong much more often than right.”
― Kenneth L. Fisher, Beat the Crowd: How You Can Out-Invest the Herd by Thinking Differently

“There are no good or bad stocks. The company is either good or bad. Stocks are just stocks.”
― Kenneth L. Fisher, Beat the Crowd: How You Can Out-Invest the Herd by Thinking Differently

“Different, not opposite. That’s the key to using professional forecasts—and the key to being a contrarian.”
― Kenneth L. Fisher, Beat the Crowd: How You Can Out-Invest the Herd by Thinking Differently

“People must be right sometimes, must feel good sometimes, or we’d never have a herd. They would just give up. The occasional rightness fosters false confidence, reinforcing the crowd’s wisdom. It is plausible deniability for TGH. It is how TGH repeatedly sucks the crowd in, makes them ignore negatives, then doles out maximum pain and suffering.”
― Kenneth L. Fisher, Beat the Crowd: How You Can Out-Invest the Herd by Thinking Differently

“Problem is, “everyone else” is as crowd-like as “everyone.” Their opinions usually aren’t unique, and their analysis often isn’t any broader or better than the main crowd”
― Kenneth L. Fisher, Beat the Crowd: How You Can Out-Invest the Herd by Thinking Differently