Enron is not a trading company. It's a hedge fund sitting on top of a natural gas pipeline.

investingCongressional testimony, 2002

The income statement can be managed. Cash flow doesn't lie.

accountingYale School of Management lecture, 2011

Short sellers are the financial world's detectives. We get paid to find the bad guys.

short-sellingCNBC interview, 2009

China is on a treadmill to hell. They have to keep running faster just to stay in place.

macroIra Sohn Investment Conference, 2010

Being early in a short is just another way of saying you're wrong until you're right. The market doesn't care about your thesis — it cares about price.

riskFinancial Times interview, 2015

The best short ideas are companies where everyone agrees the stock is expensive but nobody wants to say it out loud because they're afraid of missing the last 20%.

investingBloomberg interview, 2017
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