Steve Eisman

“If you ever had the misfortune of reading all 2,000 pages of Dodd-Frank, which I have done - and it almost killed me - basically, all it does is create a list of all the things it wants the Fed to fix.”

“The cultural issues, I think, at Wells Fargo went very, very deep. They have to unwind these cultural issues.”

“I know my Trotskyites well, and I know you don't want to be invested in the U.K. if a Trotskyite is prime minister.”

“It's very hard to argue with someone who thinks he is God because he makes a lot of money.”

“When I started out as an equity analyst, we had no securitization data. We relied on company data.”

“Do your own homework. I can't overstate the importance of this.”

“Daniel Tarullo has more power of the U.S. banking system than anybody since Alexander Hamilton. That's not an exaggeration, by the way.”

“People always come up to me and ask what the next 'big short' will be. The truth is I simply do not have an answer, and do not want to have an answer, to this question.”

“The single greatest line I ever wrote as an analyst was after Lomas said they were hedged: 'The Lomas Financial Corporation is a perfectly hedged financial institution: it loses money in every conceivable interest rate environment.' I enjoyed writing that sentence more than any sentence I ever wrote.”

“When you're levered 9 to 1, it'd be unreal for a bank to go down.”

“It's not hard to have a second act. It's just that the second act's not going to be as exciting.”

“Elon Musk is a very, very smart man, but there are a lot of smart people in this world, and you've got to execute. He's got execution problems.”

“The one stock in my portfolio which I say hasn't worked yet but has the potential for a big home run is General Motors.”

“The world needs more standardization, less innovation.”

“I hated being a lawyer.”

“Financial innovation is an oxymoron. It's very rare that there is something that's actually financial innovation. It's a euphemism for hiding leverage.”

“I don't think anybody has any idea what the economic impact of Brexit will be.”

“What value does cryptocurrency actually add? No one's been able to answer that question for me.”