The line between gambling and investing is artificial and thin.Michael Lewis
Their problem wasn’t what they didn’t know; it was what they thought they knewMichael Lewis
The ability of Wall Street traders to see themselves in their success, and their management in their failure, would later be echoed...Michael Lewis
There’s some large part of Wall Street that thinks this is a gameMichael Lewis
Give him even the slightest peek at the truth and he will reject it and continue to believe whatever makes him the happiest.Michael Lewis
Wall Street firms were, in one sense, victimized by the madness they had unleashed.Michael Lewis
No one can say exactly why a group of people, thrown together in a specific time and place, become a society.Michael Lewis
Investors who might know better didn’t know better because they wanted the dreams peddled by Wall Street to be true.Michael Lewis
No amount of experience can overcome a failure of imagination.Michael Lewis
Here he’d been making these side bets with Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank on the fate of the triple-B tranche without fully understanding...Michael Lewis
The greatest risk of all, as you get older, is complacency.Michael Lewis