Aspect Quote by James Chanos

I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls…

— James Chanos

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

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 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

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 used to think that good short-sellers could be trained like long-focused value investors because it should be the same skill set; you’re tearing…

— James Chanos

I won't sell myself short.

— Tommy Pham

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

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

I do not use short selling. The fund has not shorted a stock since the 2002 to 2003 time frame. At that time I…

— 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