“It was hard to know which of Billy's qualities was most important to his team's success: his energy, his resourcefulness, his intelligence,… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“I lived here my whole life and I've never been to this neighborhood.' And Big Mike finally spoke up. 'Don't worry,' he… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
What's fun is watching actors of that calibre bring them to life. It's incredible. Christian Bale spent a day with the character… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“In something like an instant the man had changed his life. He reinvented his relationship to the world around him in a… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“Anti-intellectual resentment is common in all of American life and it has many diverse expressions. Refusing to draft college players might have… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“Take whatever is thrown at you and build upon it. “Yes . . . and” rather than “No . . . but.”… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“If the incarceration experience doesn't break your spirit, it changes you in a way that you lose many fears. You begin to… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“We listened to the man because he had something to tell us, and us alone. Not how to play baseball, though he… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
People really don't like to hear success explained away as luck — especially successful people. As they age, and succeed, people feel… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I reached the conclusion that there was no God. That was the end of my religious life.” — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
If you're the kind of kid who thinks that all that's important in life is making money, Wall Street is probably still… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The difference in Billy wasn’t what had happened to him, but what hadn’t. He had a life he hadn’t led, and he… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
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 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
