Back Quote by Alex Berenson

Allowing short selling is allowing people to sell - instead of having to buy the stock and then sell it, which doesn't do much;…

— Robert F. Engle

The trend of the market is up, not down. Shorting stocks puts you against that trend and thus makes it more difficult to make…

— Guy Spier

My experience is that short sellers do far better analysis than long buyers because they have to. The market is biased upward over time-as…

— Seth Klarman

I'll always understand the Schadenfreude aspect to short-selling. I get that no one will always like it. I'm also convinced to the deepest part…

— James Chanos

It's dangerous to short stocks.

— Charlie Munger

By incentivizing Wall Street players to sniff out inefficient or corrupt companies and bet against them, short-selling acts as a sort of policing system;…

— Matt Taibbi

My advice to most people is don't short stocks. It's a very, very difficult business. And you can really get clobbered.

— Whitney Tilson

Shorting saved my butt in 2008... Shorting kept me in the game. It generates cash when the market's crashing. And that's what you want…

— Whitney Tilson

It's almost sickening now that the regulators 'on the beat' while the biggest credit collapse in modern financial history unfolded are now patting themselves…

— James Chanos

When a corporation goes into the marketplace to buy back its own stock, it means management thinks the stock is undervalued. This is a…

— Nancy Dunnan

The borrowers will always be willing to take a great deal for themselves. It’s up to the lenders to show restraint, and when they…

— Michael Burry

“Fearful investors sell their stocks the moment prices drop while confident ones see those drops as opportunities to own better businesses at cheaper rates.”

— Olawale Daniel