Michael Lewis

“How does the brain create meaning?”

— Michael Lewis

“I thought, Holy shit, who is paying attention?” Thus”

— Michael Lewis

“National Sarcasm Society: Like We Need Your Support.”

— Michael Lewis

“They end when the career ends,”

— Michael Lewis

All of a sudden the market is all about algos and routers.

— Michael Lewis

We change for the good so long as good exists around us.

— Michael Lewis

“doctors don’t think probabilities apply to their patients,”

— Michael Lewis

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

— Michael Lewis

“The U.S. stock market now trades inside black boxes, in heavily guarded buildings in New Jersey and Chicago.”

— Michael Lewis

The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism, is rigged,

— Michael Lewis

Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them.

— Michael Lewis

“Things went so well for him so often that no one ever needed to worry about how he behaved when they didn’t…

— Michael Lewis

“The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste…

— Michael Lewis

People dislike uncertainty so much that they will impose an order on it even when it doesn't exist.

— Michael Lewis

When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.

— Michael Lewis

People don't like uncertainty, and their minds are tools for making sense of the world, even when the world is senseless.

— Michael Lewis

The Oakland clubhouse is a wonderful place. A lot of these guys feel like rejects. They were rejects and they feel -…

— Michael Lewis

“The statistics were not merely inadequate; they lied. And the lies they told led the people who ran major league baseball teams…

— Michael Lewis

In Bakersfield, California, a Mexican strawberry picker with an income of $14,000 and no English was lent every penny he needed to…

— Michael Lewis

“It was striking how little control we had of events, particularly in view of how assiduously we cultivated the appearance of being…

— Michael Lewis

Managers tend to pick a strategy that is the least likely to fail, rather then to pick a strategy that is most…

— Michael Lewis

I don't think there is a national pasttime. Watching TV is a national pasttime. Really. If there is a national pasttime, it…

— Michael Lewis

“Every form of strength covers one weakness and creates another, and therefore every form of strength is also a form of weakness…

— Michael Lewis

The Moulin Rouge is, like the West Village and the Nasdaq, one of those places that people who don't like to take…

— Michael Lewis

“The triple-A tranches all traded at one price, the triple-B tranches all traded at another, even though there were important differences from…

— Michael Lewis

“Passing one tableau of blood and guts and moving on to the next, I caught myself glancing over my shoulder to make…

— Michael Lewis

“There are a lot of really crappy bonds in these CDOs,’” said Charlie. They didn’t realize yet that the bonds inside their…

— Michael Lewis

“What baseball managers did do, on occasion, beginning in the early 1980s, was hire some guy who knew how to switch on…

— Michael Lewis

“worth. A baseball team, of all things, was at the center of a story about the possibilities—and the limits—of reason in human…

— Michael Lewis

“The first day after the merger, Brad got a call from a worried female employee, who whispered, “There is a guy in…

— Michael Lewis

“The big banks and the exchanges have a clear responsibility to protect investors—to handle investor stock market orders in the best possible…

— Michael Lewis

“The trait [Morey] looked for was awareness that they were seeking answers to questions with no certain answers--that they were inherently fallible.…

— Michael Lewis

“In the book “The Blind Side” they are talking about the most important job in the NFL (Lewis). The most important job…

— Michael Lewis

“Danny explained, “Reforms always create winners and losers, and the losers will always fight harder than the winners.” How did you get…

— Michael Lewis

“Take a typical three-hundred-million-dollar CMO. It would be divided into three tranches, or slices of a hundred million dollars each. Investors in…

— Michael Lewis

“What John Ayers was doing seemed routine. But to the few who knew, and watched, it was a thing of beauty. The…

— Michael Lewis

People really don't like to hear success explained away as luck, especially successful people. As they age and succeed, people feel their…

— Michael Lewis

“In early July, Morgan Stanley received its first wake-up call. It came from Greg Lippmann and his bosses at Deutsche Bank, who,…

— Michael Lewis

“A credit default swap was confusing mainly because it wasn’t really a swap at all. It was an insurance policy, typically on…

— Michael Lewis

“I have this theory," says Andy Stone, seated in his office at Prudential-Bache Securities. "Wall Street makes its best producers into managers.…

— Michael Lewis