All Michael Lewis Quotes
- You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the… Always Going
- The arrangement bore the same relation to actual finance as fantasy football bears to the NFL. Actual
- The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism, is rigged, Capitalism
- The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.’s in man’s ignorance. Been
- He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing. Blessed
- Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . . Authors
- I was gonna put him on the bus...I got tired of him talking, it was time for him to go home. Bus
- Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know. Funny
- the lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual. Buffett
- The CDO was, in effect, a credit laundering service for the residents of Lower Middle Class America. For Wall Street it was a machine that… America
- In Bakersfield, California, a Mexican strawberry picker with an income of $14,000 and no English was lent every penny he needed to buy a house… Bakersfield
- What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisions--if they can get rich making… All
- The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending… Baseball
- Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,†he once wrote. “Pretty girls tend to become insufferable because, being pretty, their faults are… Across
- The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don’t know… Chance
- Managers tend to pick a strategy that is the least likely to fail, rather then to pick a strategy that is most efficient," Said Palmer.… Bad
- 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 a… Audience
- Everywhere you turn you see Americans sacrifice their long-term interests for a short-term reward. Americans
- The inability to envision a certain kind of person doing a certain kind of thing because you've never seen someone who looks like him do… Appearance
- What happens when we acknowledge the sovereignty and power of God without trusting in His goodness and faithfulness? A pitcher who saw God's power behind… Ability