Overheard at a Washington, D.C. bar: "Truth is like poetry. And most people fucking hate poetry."
On screen quotation from Mark Twain: [On screen quote attributed to Mark Twain] It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
Mark Baum: I don't get it. Why are they confessing?
Danny Moses: They're not confessing.
Porter Collins: They're bragging.
On screen quotation from Haruki Murakami's novel "IQ84": Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.
Ben Rickert: 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?
Jared Vennett: Tell me the difference between stupid and illegal and I'll have my wife's brother arrested.
Mark Baum: 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: [on the phone] Ok, I want you to walk back in there and very calmly, very politely tell the risk-assessors to fuck-off!
Vinnie Daniel: [Walks into the room] Gentlemen, I just spoke with Mark Baum and he says to 'fuck off'.
Mark Baum: Short everything that man has touched.
Rabbi: Paul is a fine boy, and Mark is an excellent student of the Torah and the Talmud.
Mark Baum's Mom: Then what's the problem, rabbi?
Rabbi: It's the reason Mark is studying so hard. He's looking for inconsistencies in the word of God!
Mark Baum's Mom: So has he found any?
Michael Burry: That's a nice haircut. Did you do it yourself?
Charlie Geller: People hate to think about bad things happening so they always underestimate their likelihood.
Jared Vennett: I'm jacked! I'm jacked to the tits!
Jared Vennett: [Answering call on his cell phone] Is this America's angriest hedge fund?
Cynthia Baum: Saints don't live on Park Avenue.
Jared Vennett: [about credit default swaps] Let me put it this way: I'm standing in front of a burning house, and I'm offering you fire insurance on it.
Mark Baum: The banks have given us 25% interest rates on credit cards. They have screwed us on student loans that we can never get out from under. Then this guy walks into my office and says those same banks got greedy, they lost track of the market, and I can profit off of their stupidity? Fuck, yeah, I want him to be right!
