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:

    “To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. It is not the part of men, but of fanatics, or of mathematicians, if you will, to say, that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want, or sitting high. Since our office is with moments, let us husband them.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it’s power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of their virtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity!”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)