“Crucial decisions are made, today as thousands of years ago, in terms of the intuitive guesses and preferences of a few men… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The smaller the sample size, the more likely that it is unrepresentative of the wider population..."people can be taught the correct rule,… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“They would learn to evaluate a decision not by its outcomes--whether it turned out to be right or wrong--but by the process… — 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
“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
