Michael Lewis

Author, Journalist

Michael Lewis is a renowned author and journalist known for his impactful books like 'The Big Short' and 'Moneyball,' which explore complex systems and human behavior.

Born
October 15, 1960
Quotes
129
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#2111

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"When the last history of high-frequency trading is written, Hunsader, like Joe Saluzzi and Sal Arnuk of Themis Trading, deserves a prominent place in it."

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"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."

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"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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"Icelandic people are inbred. And they have a sense of themselves as genetically special, and a history of risk-taking because they make their living on the high seas fishing. Assets generally rose in value during this period, and so it looked like they actually knew what they were doing."

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"There's a certain status to suffering in Ireland, that the person who - if you're sitting around a table, the person with the greatest status is the person who had the most horrible thing happen to them most recently."

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"We have the Google family calendar. Before a week starts, my wife and I sit down to decide who's driving who to school or when can we go out on a date."

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"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."

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"If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages."

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"We change for the good so long as good exists around us."

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