“Shorts wager on price declines by selling shares that they have borrow...” — Gary Weiss Quote

Shorts wager on price declines by selling shares that they have borrowed in the hope of buying them back at far lower prices.

If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.

I've met Dick Syron. I like the guy. He's a man's man kind of character, a real charmer, the kind of guy you'd want to have a beer with, as well as being an economist of considerable repute.

No other facet of American business is more corrupt, more intoxicated with illegality, more weakly regulated, and has a greater impact on poor and working people than debt collectors; not credit card companies or subprime mortgages, not even payday lenders.

When I was 16, I watched a lot of world cinema. I borrowed a lot of my personality from cinema. It has been one of my biggest teachers.

The United States lived on borrowed money for too long, inflating its financial sector unnecessarily and neglecting its small and mid-sized industrial companies.

I borrowed 100 pounds and made the pact with God: Make me a millionaire - and you can have half of my money.

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.

I was too broke to buy a guitar so I more borrowed guitars from friends.