Michael Lewis (author) Quotes

He shouted into the phone, “That is fuckin’ awesome. I mean fuckin’ awesome. I fuckin’ mean fucking ...

The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not bei...

A lot of what people did and said when they "predicted" things, Morey now realized, was phony: prete...

You need to be so careful when there is one simple diagnosis that instantly pops into your mind that...

Crucial decisions are made, today as thousands of years ago, in terms of the intuitive guesses and p...

Stories people told themselves were biased by the availability of the material used to construct the...

The trait [Morey] looked for was awareness that they were seeking answers to questions with no certa...

After seeing a movie that dramatizes nuclear war, they worried more about nuclear war; indeed, they ...

People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the ann...

The way it feels to me,' he said, 'is that there were certain ideas that I was put on this earth to ...

Danny explained, “Reforms always create winners and losers, and the losers will always fight harder ...

When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice,' Amos liked to say. 'Once whe...

Weirdly—but as Danny and Amos had suspected—the further the winning number was from the number on a ...

And [Thaler] noticed that when he had his fellow economists to dinner, they filled up on cashews, wh...

I share your feeling that such behavior is, in some sense, unwise or erroneous, but this does not me...

He was the guy who always won the game of chicken because his opponents suspected he might actually ...

We want to empower the doctors and patients to get all the other assholes out of the way,' Clark had...

What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don’t need to make smart...

The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, "too young to realize you a...

The triple of Jeremy Brown's imagination, in reality, is a home run.

What baseball managers did do, on occasion, beginning in the early 1980s, was hire some guy who knew...

If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages.

Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]

Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, bu...

The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search fo...

That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the res...

People in both fields operate with beliefs and biases. To the extent you can eliminate both and repl...

Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,” he once wrote. “Pretty girls tend to become insu...

The difference between Strauss and Ranieri?” says one trader still at Salomon. “That’s easy. Strauss...

The markets in the long run are no doubt driven by fundamental economic laws—if the United States ru...

Buy potatoes,” he said. “Gotta hop.” Then he hung up. Of course. A cloud of fallout would threaten E...

The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.’s in man’s ignorance.

It was the job of people like me to make up reasons, to spin a plausible yarn. And it’s amazing what...

The only inexplicable aspect of the process was that economic theory (which is, after all, what econ...

Memory loss is the key to human reproduction. If you remembered what new parenthood was actually lik...

A man got to have a code. - Omar Little

The U.S. stock market was now a class system, rooted in speed, of haves and have-nots. The haves pai...

...a tourist can't help but have a distorted opinion of a place: he meets unrepresentative people, h...

The lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.

I hated discussing ideas with investors," he said, "because I then become a Defender of the Idea, an...

When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice," Amos liked to say. "Once whe...

Holding one's self responsible is a critical feature in stigma and in the generation of shame since ...

On Wall Street, the lawyers play the same role as medics in war: They come in after the shooting is ...

foodstuffs absolved of the obligation to provide vitamins and minerals cavorted with reckless abando...

Those who say don't know, those who know don't say

Stigmas speak to the idea of difference and how difference shames us and those we know.