Michael Burry Quotes

Don't go public before you can be public.

It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public. Secrecy is an important factor of success in the commodity business.

If Saudi Aramco is listed, then it must announce its statements, and it will do that every quarter. It will be under the supervision of all Saudi banks, all analysts, all Saudi thinkers. Even more, all international banks and research and planning centres in the world will monitor it intensively.

I think entrepreneurs should demand transparency for startup accelerators.

The public are entitled to have an absolute guarantee of the financial probity and integrity of their elected representatives, their officials and above all of Ministers. They need to know that they are under financial obligations to nobody, other than public lending institutions, except to the extent that they are publicly declared.

[Donald Trump] has done a financial disclosure, which has gone through the Office of Government Ethics. I think he's done that twice. That is his duty under the law. I hear no complaints about that.

Hillary Clinton made $21.6 million giving speeches to Wall Street banks and other special interests and, in less than two years, secret speeches that she does not want to reveal under any circumstances to the public. I wonder why.

You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.

Trustworthiness is the thing that you need the most going to a presidential election. Honest and trustworthy is one of the main questions in any presidential election.

...you need openness and inability to do anything other than get to the point.

I have never earned one penny from any pharmaceutical company. I will never accept one penny from them either. Ever.

We need a universally accepted definition of reserves reporting.

Africa doesn't need strongmen, it needs strong institutions.

We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.

You need a lot of things in any organization, but one of the critical things is trust. When you lose trust and you feel betrayed, and it's not a matter of judgment.

We need some honesty and sincerity instead of corrupt government in Washington.

I have a consistent rule: The American people should know as much about the Pentagon as the Soviet Union and China do, as much about General Motors as Ford does, and as much about City Bank as Chase Manhattan does.

I'll bring my tax returns; you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.

Naked Truth needs no shift.

I don't need headlines. For me, it's the truth that matters.

I always feel the need to give the unfiltered truth, (or) what I think is the truth, at least.

We've given all you people need to know and understand about our financial situation and how we live our life.

You learn a lot from financial disclosure. And you should go down and take a look at that.

Since I've been in the Senate, is that my work with people like Tom Coburn on opening up transparency in government, making sure that every dollar the federal government spends that's out there - that that's all posted on a searchable database on the Internet.

The Soviet State does not need either illusions or camouflage. It can claim only that world authority which is confirmed by the facts.