This collection of brief essays illuminates the ways of thinking that a contrarian must cultivate in order to avoid falling into the trap of mass opinion that is so hard for most of us to escape. When everybody thinks alike, everyone is likely to be wrong is the quote that lies at the heart of Humphrey B. Neill s investment and political philosophies.
This was not about stocks only, more about human thinking, about life. every thing init is just as relevant today as when it was first written over 60 years ago, It makes my certain that the whole world is in a bubble ready to pop unless me make major changes. It makes me wonder if some Trump advisers had not gotten some of their ideas for his campaign from reading this book. It shows us all as being sheep following the brightest light or loudest voice.