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Michael Lewis Quotes

It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw Picture Quote #1

One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a.300 hitter and a.275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks Picture Quote #1

A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will Picture Quote #1

People really don’t like to hear success explained away as luck, especially successful people. As they age and succeed, people feel their success was somehow inevitable. They don’t want to acknowledge the role played by accident in their lives. There’s a reason for this. The world doesn’t want to acknowledge it either. Don’t be deceived by life’s outcomes. Life’s outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them. Above all, recognize that you have had success, you have also had luck. And with luck comes obligation Picture Quote #1

The world clings to its old mental picture of the stock market because it’s comforting; because it’s so hard to draw a picture of what has replaced it; and because the few people able to draw it for you have no interest in doing so Picture Quote #1

Don’t be deceived by life’s outcomes. Life’s outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them Picture Quote #1

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Commitment, by its nature, frees us from ourselves and, while it stands us in opposition to some, it joins us with others similarly committed. Commitment moves us from the mirror trap of the self absorbed with the self to the freedom of a community of shared values Picture Quote #1

A tourist can’t help but have a distorted opinion of a place: he meets unrepresentative people, has unrepresentative experiences, and runs around imposing upon the place the fantastic mental pictures he had in his head when he got there Picture Quote #1

You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book Picture Quote #1

I confess some part of me thought, if only I’d stuck around, this is the sort of catastrophe I might have created Picture Quote #1

A thought crossed his mind: How do you make poor people feel wealthy when wages are stagnant? You give them cheap loans Picture Quote #1

A credit default swap was confusing mainly because it wasn’t really a swap at all. It was an insurance policy, typically on a corporate bond, with semiannual premium payments and a fixed term Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Each firm held its rope; one by one, they realized that no matter how strongly they pulled, the balloon would eventually lift them off their feet Picture Quote #1

The fuses had been lit and could not be extinguished. All that remained was to observe the speed of the spark, and the size of the explosions Picture Quote #1

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It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw (Michael Lewis Quotes) 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 Quotes) A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will (Michael Lewis Quotes) People really don’t like to hear success explained away as luck, especially successful people. As they age and succeed, people feel their success was somehow inevitable. They don’t want to acknowledge the role played by accident in their lives. There’s a reason for this. The world doesn’t want to acknowledge it either. Don’t be deceived by life’s outcomes. Life’s outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them. Above all, recognize that you have had success, you have also had luck. And with luck comes obligation (Michael Lewis Quotes) The world clings to its old mental picture of the stock market because it’s comforting; because it’s so hard to draw a picture of what has replaced it; and because the few people able to draw it for you have no interest in doing so (Michael Lewis Quotes) Don’t be deceived by life’s outcomes. Life’s outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them (Michael Lewis Quotes) Commitment, by its nature, frees us from ourselves and, while it stands us in opposition to some, it joins us with others similarly committed. Commitment moves us from the mirror trap of the self absorbed with the self to the freedom of a community of shared values (Michael Lewis Quotes) A tourist can’t help but have a distorted opinion of a place: he meets unrepresentative people, has unrepresentative experiences, and runs around imposing upon the place the fantastic mental pictures he had in his head when he got there (Michael Lewis Quotes) You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book (Michael Lewis Quotes) I confess some part of me thought, if only I’d stuck around, this is the sort of catastrophe I might have created (Michael Lewis Quotes) A thought crossed his mind: How do you make poor people feel wealthy when wages are stagnant? You give them cheap loans (Michael Lewis Quotes) A credit default swap was confusing mainly because it wasn’t really a swap at all. It was an insurance policy, typically on a corporate bond, with semiannual premium payments and a fixed term (Michael Lewis Quotes) Here was a strange but true fact: The closer you were to the market, the harder it was to perceive its folly (Michael Lewis Quotes) Each firm held its rope; one by one, they realized that no matter how strongly they pulled, the balloon would eventually lift them off their feet (Michael Lewis Quotes) The fuses had been lit and could not be extinguished. All that remained was to observe the speed of the spark, and the size of the explosions (Michael Lewis Quotes) Michael Lewis, author of ‘Moneyball,’ got special access for a profile of Obama for ‘Vanity Fair’ - but Obama insisted on redlining his quotes (Michael Lewis Quotes)

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