The Big Short Finance Quotes

#1. 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 into the realm of behavioral finance.

James Chanos

#2. Never wallow in your troubles; despair must be kept private and brief.

Werner Herzog

#3. Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.

Shel Silverstein

#4. Affirm people. Affirm your children. Believe in them, not in what you see but in what you don't see - their potential.

Stephen Covey

#5. It's not easy to stand apart from mass hysteria - to believe that most of what's in the financial news is wrong, to believe that most important financial people are either lying or deluded - without being insane.

Michael Lewis

#6. In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is not their own by setting themselves up as judges in their own cause when the rightful judge is their superior.

Saint Ignatius

#7. Art is stronger than Nature

Titian