Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
I think that fans are always looking for someone to blame. Wouldn't it be nice if they looked in the mirror? — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“A lot of what people did and said when they "predicted" things, Morey now realized, was phony: pretending to know things rather… — 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 Wall Street now, you have to hide what you're doing. It's more fun when you don't have to do that. But… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Jacks are home runs. So are dongs, bombs, and big flies. Baseball people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“You need to be so careful when there is one simple diagnosis that instantly pops into your mind that beautifully explains everything… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
I didn't think one day something would happen that would bring me back to Wall Street to write what is essentially a… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
People were paid lots of money to make stupid decisions, people in big banks, and when people are paid to be stupid… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
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 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
“After seeing a movie that dramatizes nuclear war, they worried more about nuclear war; indeed, they felt that it was more likely… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“Stories people told themselves were biased by the availability of the material used to construct them...what people remember about the past, [Kahneman… — 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
“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
