People dislike uncertainty so much that they will impose an order on it even when it doesn't exist. Michael Lewis More Quotes by Michael Lewis More Quotes From Michael Lewis 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 a baseball field, before a live audience of thirty thousand, and a television audience of millions more, what did that say about the measurement of performance in other lines of work? If professional baseball players could be over- or under valued, who couldn't? Michael Lewis playerbaseballtelevision It is far better to keep the enemy close, by bribing him with stock options, than to have him out in the wild, foraging. Michael Lewis stock-optionsforagingenemy 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 sevendifferentyears Everywhere you turn you see Americans sacrifice their long-term interests for a short-term reward. Michael Lewis rewardssacrificelong Wall Street is not being made a scapegoat for this crisis: they really did this. Michael Lewis crisiswallmade 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 painwritingbook Jacks are home runs. So are dongs, bombs, and big flies. Baseball people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up lots of different ways to say it. Michael Lewis baseballhomerunning I was gonna put him on the bus...I got tired of him talking, it was time for him to go home. Michael Lewis tiredhometalking The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto. Michael Lewis depressingbaseballmen Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . . Michael Lewis retrospectfinancialwould-be Like Adam, formed from clay, children are formed from the biological material of which they are made or by the hands of their parents. Michael Lewis parentchildrenhands All of a sudden the market is all about algos and routers. Michael Lewis Every form of strength is also a form of weakness. Michael Lewis weaknessform 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 sparkssizespeed 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 teambaseballpeople 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 luckgraduationinspirational We change for the good so long as good exists around us. Michael Lewis long 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 ropematterfeet There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic. Michael Lewis statisticsintelligentuse Why isn't someone smarter than us doing this? Michael Lewis smarter
