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:
“When the Revolutionaries ran short of gun wadding the Rev. James Caldwell ... broke open the church doors and seized an armful of Watts hymnbooks. The preacher threw them to the soldiers and shouted, Give em Watts, boysgive em Watts!”
—For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“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 (18031882)