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The Big Short Quotes

“[to Ben sitting with his laptop doing deals] Who are you a drug dealer or a banker? Cause if you're a banker you can fuck right off!”
— Vinny Daniel, The Big Short
Tagged: Drug Dealer, banker, fuck off
“It's like someone hit a piñata full of white people who suck at golf.”
— Vinny Daniel, The Big Short
Tagged: Piñata, White People, Anti-White, Golf
“People hate to think about bad things happening so they always underestimate their likelihood.”
— Jamie Shipley, The Big Short
Tagged: Bad Things, underestimate
“That's a nice haircut. Did you do it yourself?”
— Michael Burry, The Big Short
Tagged: haircut, Insult
“I'm jacked! I'm jacked to the tits!”
— Jared Vennett, The Big Short
Tagged: jacked, Tits
“ Tell me the difference between stupid and illegal and I'll have my wife's brother arrested.”
— Jared Vennett, The Big Short
Tagged: Stupid, illegal
“If we're right, people lose homes. People lose jobs. People lose retirement savings, people lose pensions. You know what I hate about fucking banking? It reduces people to numbers. Here's a number—every 1% unemployment goes up, 40,000 people die, did you know that?”
— Ben Rickert, The Big Short
Tagged: Banking, Numbers, retirement pensions, Savings
“I'm going to find moral redemption at the roulette table.”
— Mark Baum, The Big Short
Tagged: moral redemption, roulette table
“We're going to wait and we're going to wait and we're going to wait until they feel the pain, until they start to bleed.”
— Mark Baum, The Big Short
Tagged: Waiting, Pain, Bleed
“And I'm getting madder and madder and I ask this guy how he sleeps at night knowing he's ripping off working people and he just leaves. He doesn't say a word. He just walks away from the lunch. So am I fucked up or is he?”
— Mark Baum, The Big Short
Tagged: fucked up, madder
“Short everything that man has touched.”
— Mark Baum, The Big Short
Tagged: stock trading, short sell
“I have a feeling in a few years people are going to be doing what they always do when the economy tanks. They will be blaming immigrants and poor people.”
— Mark Baum, The Big Short
Tagged: bad economy, Xenophobia, blame the poor
“We live in an era of fraud in America. Not just in banking, but in government, education, religion, food, even baseball... What bothers me ins't that fraud is not nice. Or that fraud is mean. For fifteen thousand years, fraud and shortsighted thinking have never, ever worked. Not once. Eventually you get caught, things go south. When the hell did we forget all that? I thought we were better than this, I really did.”
— Mark Baum, The Big Short
Tagged: Fraud, America, Religion, Government, baseball
“No one is paying attention because the banks are too busy getting paid obscene fees to sell these bonds.”
— Jared Vennett, The Big Short
Tagged: Wall Street, Finance, The Big Short, Housing Market
“You guys said you wanted to get rich, now you're rich.”
— Ben Rickert, The Big Short
Tagged: Finance, The Big Short, Wall Street, Housing Market
“Which means, if we're right, people lose homes, people lose jobs, people lose retirement savings, people lose pensions.”
— Ben Rickert, The Big Short
Tagged: Finance, The Big Short, Wall Street, Housing Market
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