Quotes from Steve Eisman

Deutsche Bank is a problem bank.

Citi is the cheapest large bank.

I have no negative stories about Deutsche Bank, period.

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

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

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 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.

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.

I don't see the value in Tesla.

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.

I'm flattered anybody would call me a legend.

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.

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.

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.

I hated being a lawyer.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.