Michael Lewis

“Crucial decisions are made, today as thousands of years ago, in terms of the intuitive guesses and preferences of a few men…

— Michael Lewis

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

— Michael Lewis

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

— Michael Lewis

“BILLY WOULD SAY later that his wife left him because she was unnerved by his intensity—that she could even see it in…

— Michael Lewis

“The great thing about baseball players, from the point of view of personal hygiene, is how seldom they break a sweat.”

— Michael Lewis

There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could…

— Michael Lewis

“The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, "too young to realize you are what you pretend to…

— Michael Lewis

A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will.

— Michael Lewis

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

“No longer were the prices of ordinary mortgage bonds allowed to roam inefficiently, for they were now linked to the CMO market,…

— Michael Lewis

“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…

— Michael Lewis

“The only inexplicable aspect of the process was that economic theory (which is, after all, what economics students were supposed to know)…

— Michael Lewis

“It's not easy to stand apart from mass hysteria - to believe that most of what's in the financial news is wrong,…

— Michael Lewis

“Dont worry about where i am , i'll let you know when i get there .”

— Michael Lewis

“Someone out there was using the fact that stock market orders arrived at different times at different exchanges to front-run orders from…

— Michael Lewis

“Goliath, dissatisfied with his size advantage, has bought David’s sling.”

— Michael Lewis

“I have this theory," says Andy Stone, seated in his office at Prudential-Bache Securities. "Wall Street makes its best producers into managers.…

— Michael Lewis

“The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste…

— Michael Lewis

“The U.S. stock market now trades inside black boxes, in heavily guarded buildings in New Jersey and Chicago. What goes on inside…

— Michael Lewis

“The trait [Morey] looked for was awareness that they were seeking answers to questions with no certain answers--that they were inherently fallible.…

— Michael Lewis

“Shining a light creates shadows,”

— Michael Lewis

“The gist of Laszlo’s pitch for the equity department was this question: When you turn on your television at six-thirty and Dan…

— Michael Lewis

“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

“doctors don’t think probabilities apply to their patients,”

— Michael Lewis

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— Michael Lewis