Quote by Michael Lewis Download Open image ““we are most often rewarded for punishing others, and punished for rewarding.”” — Michael Lewis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“We expect rewards for goodness, and punishments for the bad things which we do. Often, they are not immediately” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Humans are strange. … They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important—that they are important. … it's vanity.” — Robert Jackson Bennett Copy Share Image
“For any display of displeasure or anger against injustice and ungodliness, there is a reward and a godly result.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“People are "punished" or "rewarded" not for what they have done but for what they have become, and what we intentionally do is what… — David R. Loy Copy Share Image
“Distrust all those in whom the urge to punish is strong.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Excessive rewards are a sign of desperation. Excessive punishments are a sign of exhaustion.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“The reward that outdoes all others is the peace of knowing that you did right.” — Jack Hyles Copy Share Image
“The most rewarding times are those spent in changing lives, for the sake of humanity.” — Gift Gugu Mona 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
