Michael Lewis

Quotes

• “What baseball managers did do, on occasion, beginning in the early 1980s, was hire some guy who knew how to switch on th...”
• “It was the job of people like me to make up reasons, to spin a plausible yarn. And it’s amazing what people will believe...”
• “He shouted into the phone, “That is fuckin’ awesome. I mean fuckin’ awesome. I fuckin’ mean fucking awesome. You are one...”
• “And [Thaler] noticed that when he had his fellow economists to dinner, they filled up on cashews, which meant they had l...”
• “The markets in the long run are no doubt driven by fundamental economic laws—if the United States runs a persistent trad...”
• “The only inexplicable aspect of the process was that economic theory (which is, after all, what economics students were ...”
• “The U.S. stock market was now a class system, rooted in speed, of haves and have-nots. The haves paid for nanoseconds; t...”
• “...a tourist can't help but have a distorted opinion of a place: he meets unrepresentative people, has unrepresentative ...”
• “I hated discussing ideas with investors," he said, "because I then become a Defender of the Idea, and that influences yo...”
• “Memory loss is the key to human reproduction. If you remembered what new parenthood was actually like you wouldn’t go ar...”
• “The difference between Strauss and Ranieri?” says one trader still at Salomon. “That’s easy. Strauss wouldn’t stoop to u...”
• “We want to empower the doctors and patients to get all the other assholes out of the way,' Clark had once told me, then ...”
• “When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice,' Amos liked to say. 'Once when you worry about it...”
• “When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice," Amos liked to say. "Once when you worry about it...”
• “Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being m...”
• “What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don’t need to make smart decisions—if they c...”
• “People in both fields operate with beliefs and biases. To the extent you can eliminate both and replace them with data, ...”
• “The way it feels to me,' he said, 'is that there were certain ideas that I was put on this earth to think. And now I can...”
• “He was the guy who always won the game of chicken because his opponents suspected he might actually enjoy a head-on coll...”
• “The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, "too young to realize you are what you pretend ...”
• “On Wall Street, the lawyers play the same role as medics in war: They come in after the shooting is over to clean up the...”
• “That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow diffe...”
• “Stigmas speak to the idea of difference and how difference shames us and those we know.”
• “Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]”
• “The triple of Jeremy Brown's imagination, in reality, is a home run.”
• “Those who say don't know, those who know don't say”
• “A man got to have a code. - Omar Little”