History Quotes by Michael Lewis

8 History quotes by Michael Lewis

Lewis’s journalistic storytelling meets History in these short excerpts. Expect vivid, data‑rich snapshots that make the past feel immediate and engaging.

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The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn’t teach us anything.

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Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being…

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“It wasn’t just sports announcers and political pundits who radically revised their narratives, or shifted focus, so that their stories seemed to…

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

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“You need to be so careful when there is one simple diagnosis that instantly pops into your mind that beautifully explains everything…

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

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

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Incredibly, at this critical juncture in financial history, after which so much changed so quickly, the only constraint in the subprime mortgage…

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“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…

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“The great thing about baseball players, from the point of view of personal hygiene, is how seldom they break a sweat.”

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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 occur on…

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“The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, "too young to realize you are what you pretend to be.”

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A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will.

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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…

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“No longer were the prices of ordinary mortgage bonds allowed to roam inefficiently, for they were now linked to the CMO market, in much…

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“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…

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“The only inexplicable aspect of the process was that economic theory (which is, after all, what economics students were supposed to know) served almost…

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