Broke Quote by Guy Spier

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you have information that a company is not as good as its stock market valuation, you don't have a way to sell that…

— Robert F. Engle

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.

— Steve Eisman

Don't short many stocks. Instead they hedge for tail risk with CDS and options. They are happy to incur illiquidity

— Seth Klarman

You don't want to sell yourself short.

— Mookie Betts

Short sellers sell stock they have borrowed, hoping to buy it back later when its price has fallen.

— Alex Berenson