Short Sale

Short sale may refer to:

  • Short (finance), the practice of selling securities or other financial instruments, with the intention of subsequently repurchasing them at a lower price
  • Short sale (real estate), a sale of real estate in which the proceeds from selling the property is less than the amount owed

Famous quotes containing the words short and/or sale:

    “In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.”
    —Henry Miller (1891–1980)

    “I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship, or the sale of goods through pretending that they sell, or power through making believe you are powerful, or through a packed jury or caucus, bribery and “repeating” votes, or wealth by fraud.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)