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Quotes from Steve Eisman

Once in a blue moon, an entire industry is a good short.
~ Steve Eisman
Daniel Tarullo has more power of the U.S. banking system than anybody since Alexander Hamilton. That's not an exaggeration, by the way.
~ Steve Eisman
The world needs more standardization, less innovation.
~ Steve Eisman
When I started out as an equity analyst, we had no securitization data. We relied on company data.
~ Steve Eisman
When you're levered 9 to 1, it'd be unreal for a bank to go down.
~ Steve Eisman
The cultural issues, I think, at Wells Fargo went very, very deep. They have to unwind these cultural issues.
~ Steve Eisman
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
I'm shorting two stocks in the U.K., but I've got a screen of about 50, and I might short all 50 if I think Jeremy Corbyn is going to be prime minister.
~ Steve Eisman
What value does cryptocurrency actually add? No one's been able to answer that question for me.
~ Steve Eisman
The only thing that I know for sure is that the people who invest in the U.K., those investors, believe strongly that the ramifications of a hard Brexit are very bad, and they believe that a recession will take place in the U.K., and that would clearly be negative for banks of the U.K.
~ Steve Eisman
It's very hard to argue with someone who thinks he is God because he makes a lot of money.
~ Steve Eisman
The for-profit education industry has proven equal to the task.
~ Steve Eisman