Michael Lewis

The vicious cycle that is bringing down European states is not going to hit us [the USA], at least not for a…

— Michael Lewis

The reason the Greeks don't pay taxes is they don't trust where their taxes are going, because they know these other Greeks…

— Michael Lewis

A tourist can't help but have a distorted opinion of a place: he meets unrepresentative people, has unrepresentative experiences, and runs around…

— Michael Lewis

When the last history of high-frequency trading is written, Hunsader, like Joe Saluzzi and Sal Arnuk of Themis Trading, deserves a prominent…

— Michael Lewis

“I wonder,” James wrote, “if we haven’t become so numbed by all these numbers that we are no longer capable of truly…

— Michael Lewis

We have the Google family calendar. Before a week starts, my wife and I sit down to decide who's driving who to…

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My judgement is not good when I am on a book tour. I am not thinking about it that much. What happens…

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“By the middle of 2011, roughly 30 percent of all stock market trades occurred off the public exchanges, most of them in…

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There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could…

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“Who do you work for? That question haunted salesmen. Whenever a trader screwed a customer and the salesman became upset, the trader…

— Michael Lewis

When an American declares bankruptcy, when he hits bottom, he can reinvent himself. There's a story he can tell. We tolerate reinvention.…

— Michael Lewis

“How could anyone be so stupid as to trust a trader? The best thing I could do was pretend to others at…

— Michael Lewis

“He shouted into the phone, “That is fuckin’ awesome. I mean fuckin’ awesome. I fuckin’ mean fucking awesome. You are one Big…

— Michael Lewis

“When you’re a conservative Republican, you never think people are making money by ripping other people off,” he said. His mind was…

— Michael Lewis

There used to be this guy called Vinny who worked on the floor of the stock exchange, said one big investor who…

— Michael Lewis

The Germans made just about every bad investment you could have made in the last 10 years. They invested in Icelandic banks.…

— Michael Lewis

“There is a magic moment, during which a man has surrendered a treasure, and during which the man who is about to…

— Michael Lewis

“Maybe because there are so few Icelanders in the world, we know next to nothing about them. We assume they are more…

— Michael Lewis

“The Piranha didn’t talk like a person. He said things like “If you fuckin’ buy this bond in a fuckin’ trade, you’re…

— Michael Lewis

“No one wanted to get in a fight with Amos," said the psychologist Irv Beaterman. "Not in public. I only once ever…

— Michael Lewis

I'd stumbled into a job at Salomon Brothers in 1985, and stumbled out, richer, in 1988, and even though I wrote a…

— Michael Lewis

The institutions at the centre of capitalism are bigger than they've ever been, the pay is much greater, the ability of society…

— Michael Lewis

Icelandic people are inbred. And they have a sense of themselves as genetically special, and a history of risk-taking because they make…

— Michael Lewis

The incentive for the outsider is to attack the system right up to the moment he is co-opted by it. The incentive…

— Michael Lewis

“For that purpose, partly as the result of Ranieri’s persistent lobbying, two new facilities had sprung up in the federal government alongside…

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I was really interested in a pretty simple thing: what happens when someone tries to introduce moral considerations into Wall Street, what…

— Michael Lewis

“Amos was not merely an optimist. He willed himself to be an optimist because he had decided pessimism was stupid. "When you…

— Michael Lewis

The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating…

— Michael Lewis

“Years later he would say that when he'd decided to become a professional baseball player, it was the only time he'd done…

— Michael Lewis

“Buy potatoes,” he said. “Gotta hop.” Then he hung up. Of course. A cloud of fallout would threaten European food and water…

— Michael Lewis

“Irish people will tell you that, because of their sad history of dispossession, owning a home is not just a way to…

— Michael Lewis

“The retirement age for Greek jobs classified as "arduous" is as early as fifty-five for men and fifty for women. As this…

— Michael Lewis

“The U.S. stock market was now a class system, rooted in speed, of haves and have-nots. The haves paid for nanoseconds; the…

— Michael Lewis

“Burry did not think investing could be reduced to a formula or learned from any one role model. The more he studied…

— Michael Lewis

“One of these people—a Canadian, of all things—stands at the picture’s center, organizing the many smaller pictures into a coherent whole. His…

— Michael Lewis

Time and space are absolute. Diseases are evil spirits that inhabit the body. Parallel lines never meet. The earth is the center…

— Michael Lewis

If you have a patient in a doctor's office who's just been told they have terminal cancer but there's this operation they…

— Michael Lewis

“Daryl Morey believed—if he believed in anything—in taking a statistically based approach to decision making. And the most important decision he made…

— Michael Lewis