“The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, "too young to realize you are what you pretend to… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
It's such a pain in the ass to write a book, I can't imagine writing one if I'm not interested in the… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
My judgement is not good when I am on a book tour. I am not thinking about it that much. What happens… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“In the book “The Blind Side” they are talking about the most important job in the NFL (Lewis). The most important job… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Hollywood would much prefer the author be dead, so that they can buy the book and do what they want to do… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
I always find with my stories that the way they start is that I just get so interested in a person that… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“Yosef Tversky, the son of a rabbi, despised religion and loved Russian literature, and found a great deal of amusement in what… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“Crucial decisions are made, today as thousands of years ago, in terms of the intuitive guesses and preferences of a few men in positions… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“You saw someone who reminded you of you, and then you looked for the reasons why you liked him. The” — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“At other places management says, ‘Well, gee, fellas, do we really want to bet the ranch on this deal?’ Lewie was not only willing… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“BILLY WOULD SAY later that his wife left him because she was unnerved by his intensity—that she could even see it in his hands… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The great thing about baseball players, from the point of view of personal hygiene, is how seldom they break a sweat.” — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, "too young to realize you are what you pretend to be.” — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“No longer were the prices of ordinary mortgage bonds allowed to roam inefficiently, for they were now linked to the CMO market, in much… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The difference between Strauss and Ranieri?” says one trader still at Salomon. “That’s easy. Strauss wouldn’t stoop to use the men’s room on the… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The only inexplicable aspect of the process was that economic theory (which is, after all, what economics students were supposed to know) served almost… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
