Steve Eisman

“I thought that there would never again be an opportunity to be involved with an industry as socially destructive and morally bankrupt as the subprime mortgage industry. I was wrong. The for-profit education industry has proven equal to the task.”

“What is very negative is that in every country in Europe, the largest owner of that country's sovereign bonds are that country's banks.”

“Nobody is going to invest in the Italian banks unless they trust their balance sheets.”

“We need the government to force the banks to write down all their bad assets now and then recapitalize themselves, preferably with private capital. Those banks that cannot raise sufficient capital should be seized and their deposits sold off.”

“I'm not really worried about England's banks.”

“Deutsche Bank is a problem bank.”

“I have no negative stories about Deutsche Bank, period.”

“Once in a blue moon, an entire industry is a good short.”

“To say that past managements of Citigroup were poor would be a kindness.”

“Running my fund in 2008 felt a little like being Noah. Noah builds his ark, and he puts his family on the ark, and off they go. So he and his family are safe, and everybody else is dying.”

“My parents worked as brokers at Oppenheimer securities. They managed to finagle me a job.”

“The only thing that I know for sure is that the people who invest in the U.K., those investors, believe strongly that the ramifications of a hard Brexit are very bad, and they believe that a recession will take place in the U.K., and that would clearly be negative for banks of the U.K.”

“Citi is the cheapest large bank.”

“Alan Greenspan is the worst Chairman of the Fed in history.”

“I've always felt there was something wrong with Wells Fargo's culture, for a very, very long time.”

“I'm flattered anybody would call me a legend.”

“Deutsche Bank has a very simple problem. It doesn't make money.”

“I'm not short, so I can make a speech and drive the stock down and cover the stock. That's not what I do.”

“I don't see the value in Tesla.”

“I'm shorting two stocks in the U.K., but I've got a screen of about 50, and I might short all 50 if I think Jeremy Corbyn is going to be prime minister.”