Eisman Quotes

#1. There was of course no point in trying to monitor Eisman. He saw himself as a crusader, a champion of the underdog, an enemy of sinister authority. He saw himself, roughly speaking, as Spider-Man.

Michael Lewis

#2. He was pressured to be a bit more upbeat, but upbeat did not come naturally to Steve Eisman. He could fake upbeat, and sometimes did, but he was happier not bothering.

Michael Lewis

#3. In Eisman's view, the unwillingness of the U.S. government to allow the bankers to fail was less a solution than a symptom of a still deeply dysfunctional financial system.

Michael Lewis

#4. Unpleasant odor wafting from the subprime mortgage industry that Eisman had detected. These companies disclosed their ever-growing earnings, but not much else. One of the many items they failed to disclose was the delinquency rate of the home loans they were making.

Michael Lewis

#5. The only one among them who wrestled a bit with their role - as the guys who had made a fortune betting against their own society - was Vincent Daniel. "Vinny, being from Queens, needs to see the dark side of everything," said Eisman. To

Michael Lewis

#6. From the point of view of the history of the universe, Max's death was not a big deal," said Eisman. "It was just my big deal." At

Michael Lewis

#7. Aldinger, collected his $100 million, Eisman was on his way to becoming the financial market's first socialist. "When you're a conservative Republican, you never think people are making money by ripping other people off," he said. His mind was now fully

Michael Lewis

#8. Danny and Vinny both thought the problem in this case was Eisman's affinity for Bear Stearns. The most hated firm on Wall Street, famous mainly for its total indifference to the good opinion of its competitors, Eisman identified with the place!

Michael Lewis

#9. Eisman took the cart to the clubhouse and bought a hoodie. The hoodie covered up his t-shirt and made him look a lot like a guy who had just bought a hoodie to cover up his t-shirt.

Michael Lewis

#10. Golfing with Eisman wasn't like golfing with other Wall Street people. The round usually began with a collective discomfort on the first tee, after Eisman turned up wearing something that violated the Wall Street golfer's notion of propriety.

Michael Lewis

#11. Eisman was quick to see narratives, he explained the world in stories, and this was one of the stories he used to explain himself. The

Michael Lewis

#12. Who takes out a home loan and doesn't make the first payment?" asked Danny Moses, putting the matter one way. "Who the fuck lends money to people who can't make the first payment?" asked Eisman, putting it another. When

Michael Lewis

#13. Which Wall Street big shots Eisman had insulted was a matter of which Wall Street big shots' presence Eisman was allowed into.

Michael Lewis

#14. Eisman was now explaining why the world was going to blow up, but his partners were only half-listening ... because the financial world was blowing up.

Michael Lewis

#15. She did not get a medal - it was not fair. 'What a swizz,' she whispered bitterly to her mother as Cicely Barnard's name was called. 'She simply doesn't know enough to be bad.

Monica Dickens

#16. That Wall Street has gone down because of this is justice ... They built a castle to rip people off. Not once in all these years have I come across a person inside a big Wall Street firm who was having a crisis of conscience.

Steve Eisman

#17. It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior.

Nathaniel Branden

#18. Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.

FKA Twigs

#19. When meeting difficult situations, one should dash forward bravely and with joy.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#20. It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism and Christianity.

Susan Howatch

#21. When you're a conservative Republican, you never think people are making money by ripping other people off," he said. His mind was now fully open to the possibility. "I now realized there was an entire industry, called consumer finance, that basically existed to rip people off.

Michael Lewis

#22. Ah yes! I'm feeling a powerful energy through my bullshit chokra. - Jonathan "Jack" McVoy

E.J. Eisman

#23. Who had time for morals in a world like this?

Brandon Sanderson

#24. Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.

Aslan Maskhadov

#25. If my liver cared enough, it would have told me to stop. - Jonathan "Jack" McVoy

E.J. Eisman

#26. The for-profit education industry has proven equal to the task.

Steve Eisman

#27. Love means never to have to say, "That hooker meant nothing to me" - Jonathan "Jack" McVoy

E.J. Eisman

#28. Monday; a cross between Wednesday this week and Thursday next week." - Jonathan "Jack" McVoy

E.J. Eisman

#29. I'm thinking there should be a dating site called "Tap That" - Jonathan "Jack" McVoy

E.J. Eisman

#30. Once in awhile you come across a company that is completely and utterly mis-priced,

Steve Eisman