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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9abc7c1 | No matter how successful you are, change is always good. There can never be a status quo. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 4b9549f | Anti-intellectual resentment is common in all of American life and it has many diverse expressions. Refusing to draft college players might have been one of them. Bill James | Michael Lewis | ||
| 1d76ddf | So many problems occur when people fail to be obedient when they are supposed to be obedient, and fail to be creative when they are supposed to be creative. The | Michael Lewis | ||
| e97f6a0 | It was striking how little control we had of events, particularly in view of how assiduously we cultivated the appearance of being in charge by smoking big cigars and saying fuck all the time. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 91da76a | 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 | ||
| 5cbc93c | why they studied economics, and they'd explain that it was the most practical course of study, even while they spent their time drawing funny little graphs. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 8e0872b | He who sees the past as surprise-free is bound to have a future full of surprises. | Michael Lewis | ||
| b9b9952 | The guy walks around with a banana in his ear. And people are like, 'Why do you have a banana in your ear?' He says, 'To keep the alligators away! There are no alligators! See? | Michael Lewis | ||
| 0b93065 | They actually spent time wondering how people who had been so sensationally right (i.e., they themselves) could preserve the capacity for diffidence and doubt and uncertainty that had enabled them to be right. The more sure you were of yourself and your judgment, the harder it was to find opportunities premised on the notion that you were, in the end, probably wrong. The | Michael Lewis | ||
| 8ea6d13 | Someone once said that education was knowing what to do when you don't know, | Michael Lewis | ||
| f46a433 | On its surface, the booming market in side bets on subprime mortgage bonds seemed to be the financial equivalent of fantasy football: a benign, if silly, facsimile of investing. Alas, there was a difference between fantasy football and fantasy finance: When a fantasy football player drafts Peyton Manning to be on his team, he doesn't create a second Peyton Manning. When Mike Burry bought a credit default swap based on a Long Beach Savings s.. | goldman-sachs mike-burry subprime-mortgage-bonds wall-street | Michael Lewis | |
| 6871e7a | After the war Avi, by then twenty-two years old, finally decided what he would study: psychology. Had you asked him just then why he picked psychology, "I would say I want to understand the human soul. Not the mind. The soul." | Michael Lewis | ||
| c68882d | The relationship between the people and their money in California is such that you can pluck almost any city at random and enter a crisis. San Jose has the highest per capita income of any city in the United States, after New York. It has the highest credit rating of any city in California with a population over 250,000. It is one of the few cities in America with a triple-A rating from Moody's and Standard & Poor's, but only because its bo.. | financial-crisis-of-2007-2010 ratings | Michael Lewis | |
| 79817b9 | The entire health industry lies about what things cost to make," she said. "I know what things cost because I made them." -- | Michael Lewis | ||
| 70b03ae | The method of his execution was unsurprising: Trump always avoided firing people himself. The man who played Mr. You're Fired on TV avoided personal confrontation in real life. | Michael Lewis | ||
| b05ba30 | The astute investor 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 | ||
| 956ebbc | Thomas Pyle, president of the American Energy Alliance, which, upon inspection, proved to be a Washington, DC, propaganda machine funded with millions of dollars from ExxonMobil and Koch Industries. Pyle himself had served as a Koch Industries lobbyist and ran a business on the side writing editorials attacking the DOE's attempts to reduce the dependence of the American economy on carbon. | Michael Lewis | ||
| d7b61b6 | the knowledge that is never created, because you have ceased to lay the groundwork for it. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 8844675 | Trump's budget, like the social forces behind it, is powered by a perverse desire--to remain ignorant. | Michael Lewis | ||
| e36341e | There is an upside to ignorance, and a downside to knowledge. Knowledge makes life messier. It makes it a bit more difficult for a person who wishes to shrink the world to a worldview. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 1c2c34f | Corporate finance, which services the corporations and governments that borrow money, and that are known as "clients," is, by comparison, a refined and unworldly place. Because they don't risk money, corporate financiers are considered wimps by traders." | traders wall-street | Michael Lewis | |
| 06233c6 | Walking through the ruins, she saw all over again what she had seen so many times: how much better Americans were at responding to a disaster than preventing it. | Michael Lewis | ||
| fe46314 | By changing the context in which two things are compared, you submerge certain features and force others to the surface. | Michael Lewis | ||
| c051c8b | The way the creative process works is that .you first say something, and later, sometimes years later, you understand what you said. | Michael Lewis | ||
| 6f74130 | 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. | Michael Lewis | ||
| c3930c4 | Things are grouped together for a reason, but, once they are grouped, their grouping causes them to seem more like each other than they otherwise would. That is, the mere act of classification reinforces stereotypes. If you want to weaken some stereotype, eliminate the classification. Amos's | Michael Lewis | ||
| 6748f2c | Risk, I had learned, was a commodity in itself. | Michael Lewis | ||
| dfb1e5e | The problems that had been Obama's problems for the past eight years were about to become Trump's problems. But his people didn't seem to want to know about them. | government | Michael Lewis | |
| 458c433 | lot of that money went to big grain producers. The same Republican senators from farm states who said they abhorred government spending of almost any sort became radical socialists when the conversation turned to handouts to big grain producers. "The money follows the political power of the constituencies," | Michael Lewis | ||
| 9d978a5 | Suddenly, however, the dastardly department of my personality presented two plans, one of which involved dynamite, mustache wax, some rope, and train tracks . . . which I rejected due to financial investment. | funny villainy | Laurie Notaro | |
| cc24819 | I could croak with no warning, and the only tragedy anyone would experience would be showing up on the last day of my estate sale simply to discover that all remaining items had copious amounts of dog hair on them. | dogs death humor | Laurie Notaro | |
| 4c1d242 | You are basically a flophouse and a pimp away from Pepcid rehab, you know that?" I informed Nana." | Laurie Notaro | ||
| ce30bc0 | It was the gift that every girl dreams of, to be dead long enough for your parents to realize how meaningless their lives were without you, how they were suddenly and at once deeply sorrowed at all of the horrible injustices they caused you, how they had truly never appreciated your natural gifts of beauty and grace, being that their beautiful angel would have such a short time on earth and should have spent that time driving the restored 1.. | Laurie Notaro | ||
| accfa80 | Are you kidding I was raised Catholic, my mom just came back from a Saint Francis Pilgrimage in Italy and bought a huge statue to prove it, big as you. Big as you. Catholics aren't like that, they can be a little slutty at times, sure and there's the pedophilia, but they aren't allowed to be strippers! It's not allowed! | Laurie Notaro | ||
| a73e020 | It's a proclamation he regards as complete absolution from answering...as if his last name was Bush, he was eighteen, and there was a draft going on. | Laurie Notaro | ||
| ac53a8d | Is it just another pore expanding? God, I already have pores the size of pudding cups, that's the last thing I need, another pore...to fill in with spackle. | Laurie Notaro | ||
| ed2d40d | Not aptitude....attitude is the criterion for success. | Denis Waitley | ||
| bcc0c12 | Natural talents begin to blossom early, but they get nipped in the bud by what I call "the parent, the peer group and the professor" who tell us we should be concentrating on something like computers that will earn us money, instead of chasing this crazy passion of ours, and the talent in that passion which may be the key to riches untold. Denis Waitley" | Janet Bray Attwood | ||
| 0ec6839 | Conveniently then he can forget it all exists. And, after a time only a general notion will remain in his mind, that there are places where he doesn't belong, and those where he seems to fall right in. | jimmy-corrigan | Chris Ware | |
| ec04681 | It's somehow more comforting to imagine that one's suffering is unique, and to measure against what one doesn't know, rather than against what one does. | Chris Ware | ||
| cbaf551 | Unlike prose writing, the strange process of writing with pictures encourages associations and recollections to accumulate literally in front of your eyes; people, places, and events appear out of nowhere. Doors open into rooms remembered from childhood, faces form into dead relatives, and distant loves appear, almost magically, on the page- all deceptively manageable, visceral, the combinations sometimes even revelatory. | Chris Ware | ||
| 45321af | Think about it: if someone had found a way to manipulate human choice and free will - if someone actually had that kind of power - wouldn't it be a tad surprising if they then decided to share their secret with the masses in a book for $20? Not to mention how it would be just very slightly unethical. | influence-quotes salesmanship selling-skills selling-tips sales-effectiveness selling influence business-quotes business-success business-advice sales sales-training negotiation | Chris Murray | |
| 95b2028 | The only time you have is the where and when of right now. There will always be good times, bad times, hard times, and complete disasters. However, there is no other option but to be where you are, when you are. That is a universal truth for everyone. The important thing is how you respond, what you decide to do, and when you decide to do it. | achievement-and-attitude achievement-gap achieving-dreams achieving-excellence achieving-mastery achieving-success arriving personal-planning sales-advice sales-effectiveness selling success-in-business successful-living success-self-improvement achievements success-in-life success-strategies business moving-forward doing success-quotes sales sales-training | Chris Murray | |
| 58fef09 | I have set my mind to make sure I am prepared to accept success, whatever the trials ahead, whatever the work required. | sales-advice sales-effectiveness selling success-in-business successful-living success comfort-zone success-self-improvement success-in-life success-strategies success-quotes sales sales-training | Chris Murray |