Quote by Michael Lewis

“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

“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 only willing…

— 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 his hands…

— 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 occur on…

— 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 be.”

— 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 was an…

— Michael Lewis

“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

“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

“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