Michael Lewis Quotes

“When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice. Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.”
― Amos Tversky

“He who sees the past as surprise free is bound to have a future full of surprises.”
― Amos Tversky

“No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story.”
― Danny Kahneman

“I appreciate this, but I just want to know one thing: How are you going to fuck me?”
― Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

“It was one of the fringe benefits of living for so many years essentially alienated from the world around him; He could easily believe that he was right and the world was wrong.”
― Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

“For all we know, the handwriting might have been on the wall all along. The question is: was the ink invisible?”
― Amos Tversky

“(Even when hearing an illogical argument Danny asked:) What might this be true of?”
― Danny Kahneman

“Last impressions can be lasting impressions.”
― Don Redelmeier