Success Quotes by Michael Lewis

8 Success quotes by Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis’s eight quick takes on success blend his journalistic edge with analytical clarity. Expect crisp, data‑informed reflections that cut straight to the core of achievement.

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“It was hard to know which of Billy's qualities was most important to his team's success: his energy, his resourcefulness, his intelligence,…

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

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“Weirdly—but as Danny and Amos had suspected—the further the winning number was from the number on a person's lottery ticket, the less…

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In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a…

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Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation. You owe…

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Just because you've been successful and just because you've disrupted an environment, doesn't mean you're a role model or that you actually…

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

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“But everyone wanted to be a Big Swinging Dick, even the women. Big Swinging Dickettes.”

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“You saw someone who reminded you of you, and then you looked for the reasons why you liked him. The”

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“At other places management says, ‘Well, gee, fellas, do we really want to bet the ranch on this deal?’ Lewie was not only willing…

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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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