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Pope Benedict XVI was the first to predict the crisis in the global financial system ... Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti said.
— Michael Lewis
Not because he had the slightest interest in God but because he was curious about its internal contradictions.
— Michael Lewis
One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks.
— Michael Lewis
Had Volcker never pushed through his radical change in policy, the world would be many bond traders and one memoir the poorer.
— Michael Lewis
These Ginnie Maes suck. They get longer [in maturity] when rates go up, and shorter when rates go down, and nobody wants them
— Michael Lewis
A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will.
— Michael Lewis
Frustrated people needed to undo some feature of their environment, while regretful people needed to undo their own actions. "The
— Michael Lewis
Donnie Green himself had been a trader at Salomon Brothers in the dark ages, when traders had more hair on their chests than on their heads.
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In the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathematics the more uncertain and speculative the conclusion we draw therefrom ... .
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Only a psychological freak could approach a 100-mph fastball aimed not all that far from his head with total confidence. "Lenny
— Michael Lewis
If you're in a business where you can do only one thing and it doesn't work out, it's hard for your bosses to be mad at you.
— Michael Lewis
Amos had wanted to be a poet when he was a boy. He'd wound up a scientist. Danny was a poet, who somehow happened to have become a scientist.
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The nice thing about things that are urgent," he liked to say, "is that if you wait long enough they aren't urgent anymore." "I
— Michael Lewis
I didn't think one day something would happen that would bring me back to Wall Street to write what is essentially a sequel.
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He was the person for whom the clock was always running out, the game was always tied, and the ball was always in his hands.
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Hollywood would much prefer the author be dead, so that they can buy the book and do what they want to do with it.
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Here was another way Israel was different from the United States: Its wars were short, and someone always won.
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He was the guy who always won the game of chicken because his opponents suspected he might actually enjoy a head-on collision.
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Guys who can't get a job on Wall Street get a job at Moody's, as one Goldman Sachs trader-turned-hedge fund manager put it.
— Michael Lewis
The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn't teach us anything.
— Michael Lewis
The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.
— Malcolm Gladwell
After Gell-Man was done, Amos said, "You know, Murray, there is no one in the world who is as smart as you think you are.
— Michael Lewis
The programmers decided the steps everyone on board Hyperion would need to take to do everything from dimming the lights to raising the sails.
— Michael Lewis
The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.
— Michael Lewis
The members of Hyperion's crew were now pigs, for a very simple reason: they all had a stake in Clark's Internet businesses.
— Michael Lewis
Those who say don't know, those who know don't say
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The arrangement bore the same relation to actual finance as fantasy football bears to the NFL.
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He further believed that the only way to get people to believe that you were good for their careers was actually to be good for their careers.
— 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
The exercise was meant to illustrate the powerful instinct people have for finding causes for any effect, and also for creating narratives. "The
— Michael Lewis
Peter Parker - when
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There is no such thing as a riskless asset. The reason an asset pays a return is that it carries risk.
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Here was a strange but true fact: The closer you were to the market, the harder it was to perceive its folly.
— Michael Lewis
A Home without Equity Is Just a Rental with Debt,
— Michael Lewis
And so it went in football. The game attracted the very people most likely to get in trouble outside
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On Wall Street, the lawyers play the same role as medics in war: They come in after the shooting is over to clean up the mess.
— Michael Lewis
Complicated financial stuff was being dreamed up for the sole purpose of lending money to people who could never repay it.
— Michael Lewis
But everyone wanted to be a Big Swinging Dick, even the women. Big Swinging Dickettes.
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The difference between a great software guy and an okay software guy is huge. A great software guy is worth ten times an okay software guy.
— Michael Lewis
might be followed. They were the hunters, not the prey. Bosch wondered what Lewis and Clarke were doing. Did they expect that he
— Michael Connelly
Microsoft was twelve years old before people started talking about Microsoft millionaires; Netscape was one and a half.
— Michael Lewis
This completed the curious reversal in roles that occurred in the early 1980s, when thrifts became traders and traders thrifts.
— Michael Lewis
Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.
— Michael Lewis
Life is a book. The fact that it was a short book doesn't mean it wasn't a good book. It was a very good book.
— Michael Lewis
In a thousand subtle and unsubtle ways they were reinventing the experience of living on board a boat.
— Michael Lewis
Could Morgan Stanley please wire $1.2 billion to Deutsche Bank by the end of the day?
— Michael Lewis
As a former gas station attendant, parking lot attendant, medical resident and current Goldman Sachs screwee, I am offended.
— Michael Lewis
Gutfreund (pronounced Good friend) liked to sneak up from behind and surprise you. This was fun for him but not for you.
— Michael Lewis
Any person with the brains to get into the IIT's and the gumption to get himself to the United States was capable of all manner of miracles.
— Michael Lewis
Investment bankers make money for a living.
— Michael Lewis
That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.
— Michael Lewis
Michael is not only my friend, he's my family.
— Emmanuel Lewis
They end when the career ends,
— Michael Lewis
What was the secret to dealing with the assholes? "Lift weights or learn karate," said O'Grady.
— Michael Lewis
A man got to have a code. - Omar Little
— Michael Lewis
If it doesn't happen, it never was going to happen. If you never did it, it wasn't there to begin with.
— Michael Lewis
It is amazing how dull history books are, given how much of what's in them must be invented." What
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Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic universe. In this match, surprises are expected.
— Michael Lewis
It's one thing to bet on red or black and know that you are betting on red or black. It's another to bet on a form of red and not to know it.
— Michael Lewis
You can tell a lot about a country by observing how much better they treat themselves than foreigners at the point of entry.
— Michael Lewis
You Can Be a Stock Market Genius,
— Michael Lewis
The way it feels to me,' he said, 'is that there were certain ideas that I was put on this earth to think. And now I can think them.
— Michael Lewis
It's such a pain in the ass to write a book, I can't imagine writing one if I'm not interested in the subject.
— Michael Lewis
One piece of bad luck was rapid technical change, which was a weapon that oddball upstarts could use against the enormous gray corporations.
— Michael Lewis
The way the creative process works is that .you first say something, and later, sometimes years later, you understand what you said.
— Michael Lewis
As the U.S. stock market had grown less comprehensible, it had also become more sensationally erratic.
— Michael Lewis
This gorgeous financial myopia was common in the Valley, and one of the chief sources of its success.
— Michael Lewis
Whatever that guy is buying, I want to short it.
— Michael Lewis
The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.
— Michael Lewis
Warren Buffett is fond of saying that any player unaware of the fool in the market probably is the fool in the market.
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There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity. Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.
— Michael Lewis
With every stroke of their keyboards they hacked a path through the forest that others would be required to follow.
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When something becomes obvious to you," he said, "you immediately think surely someone else is doing this.
— Michael Lewis
Capitalism's machinery favored these capitalists as it had never favored anyone else in its history.
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Danny's trading life was man versus man, but this felt more like man versus nature: The synthetic CDO had become a synthetic natural disaster.
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And who would deny that the consumer demand for ever more stuff at ever cheaper prices is one of the great deterministic forces in history?
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Every systemic market injustice arose from some loophole in a regulation created to correct some prior injustice.
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He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing.
— Michael Lewis
A Schwalling is when he does something unintentionally idiotic that makes him look stupid,
— Michael Lewis
if you challenge the conventional wisdom, you will find ways to do things much better than they are currently done.
— Michael Lewis
Ronan, for his part, couldn't quite believe how ordinary the people on Wall Street were. "It's a whole industry of bullshit," he said.
— Michael Lewis
We change for the good so long as good exists around us.
— Michael Lewis