"A banking system is an act of faith:……" — Michael Lewis

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

— Michael Lewis

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64 Quotes by Michael Lewis

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Thirdly-but not lastly-there was the bias toward what people saw with their own eyes, or thought they had seen. The…
Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The…
In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children…
When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.
He's a machine for competitive balance, ... Yes, the money is in New York. Yes, the money is in his…
My client loved risk. Risk, I had learned, was a commodity in itself. Risk could be canned and sold like…
It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar…
One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one…
Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation.…
Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.
Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.
I don't think there is a national pasttime. Watching TV is a national pasttime. Really. If there is a national…

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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