If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages. Michael Lewis More Quotes by Michael Lewis More Quotes From Michael Lewis Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book. Michael Lewis affection writing book I don't think there is a national pasttime. Watching TV is a national pasttime. Really. If there is a national pasttime, it is watching TV. Michael Lewis watching-tv tvs thinking There used to be this guy called Vinny who worked on the floor of the stock exchange, said one big investor who had observed the market for a long time. After the markets closed Vinny would get into his Cadillac and drive out to his big house in Long Island. Now there is the guy called Vladimir who gets into his jet and flies to his estate in Aspen for the weekend. I used to worry a little about Vinny. Now I worry a lot about Vladimir Michael Lewis weekend islands long The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too. Michael Lewis red baseball play The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is going to hell in the papers. Michael Lewis media half fire People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right. Michael Lewis baseball sports thinking My judgement is not good when I am on a book tour. I am not thinking about it that much. What happens is I will go back home. I have a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old and a wife who is now taking care of them who is wondering where her husband is. Michael Lewis husband home book 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 catastrophe stuck might The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism, is rigged. Michael Lewis capitalism iconic united-states I think that fans are always looking for someone to blame. Wouldn't it be nice if they looked in the mirror? Michael Lewis nice mirrors thinking There are several insights at the heart of the A’s system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it’s a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god’s sake don’t go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy. Michael Lewis team baseball heart The arrangement bore the same relation to actual finance as fantasy football bears to the NFL. Michael Lewis nfl business football 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 running people travel Time and space are absolute. Diseases are evil spirits that inhabit the body. Parallel lines never meet. The earth is the center of the universe. Children are miniature adults. At one time in history each of these beliefs was generally held to be true. Each, however, gave way to different ideas and even different world views. Michael Lewis views children ideas 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 ambition writing book What happens when we acknowledge the sovereignty and power of God without trusting in His goodness and faithfulness? A pitcher who saw God's power behind his extremely unlikely rise to the big leagues wondered if, at any difficulty he encountered there, God might be taking his ability away. Michael Lewis saws league might Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture. Michael Lewis speak baseball culture Yet another hedge fund manager explained Icelandic banking to me this way: you have a dog, and I have a cat. We agree that each is worth a billion dollars. You sell me the dog for a billion, and I sell you the cat for a billion. Now we are no longer pet owners but Icelandic banks, with a billion dollars in new assets. Michael Lewis cat pet dog That was how a Salomon bond trader thought: He forgot whatever it was that he wanted to do for a minute and put his finger on the pulse of the market. If the market felt fidgety, if people were scared or desperate, he herded them like sheep into a corner, then made them pay for their uncertainty. He sat on the market until it puked gold coins. Then he worried about what he wanted to do. Michael Lewis gold sheep people Warren Buffett is fond of saying that any player unaware of the fool in the market probably is the fool in the market. Michael Lewis warren-buffet fool player
