“In their leaders, advisers, and experts, people much prefer overconfidence, total certainty, to any kind of doubt.” Quote by Michael Lewis
“I'd say part of the appeal of Trump is that he's presenting himself as a totally certain, infallible person.” PersonsCertainTrumpAppealsPresentingInfallible Author:Michael Lewis
“You can anchor the mind into answering a question a certain way by giving them a totally unrelated piece of information dropped before.” WayGivingMindCertainPiecesInformationAnchors Author:Michael Lewis
“When something happens people didn't predict, they find ways to explain it as if it were predictable.” PeopleIfsWayHappensThings HappenPredictable Author:Michael Lewis
“Donald Trump got almost 3 million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton! He happened to get more in some of the right places. It was just like one of those things where a stock going up and people impose a false sense of order on it. It's really more intellectually honestly viewed as a disorderly process.” PeopleOrderProcessMillionsHappenedTrumpVoteClintonHonestlyFewerRight Place Author:Michael Lewis
“I always find with my stories that the way they start is that I just get so interested in a person that I'm compelled to go back to them over and over until I learn more and more about them, without even quite thinking it's material for a book.” ThinkingWayPersonsBookStoriesMaterialsCompelled Author:Michael Lewis
“I was really interested in a pretty simple thing: what happens when someone tries to introduce moral considerations into Wall Street, what happens when someone wants to actually demand of himself and those who work with him that what they do is not just profitable but good and useful.” WantTryingHappensSimpleMoralStreetsWallDemandConsiderationIntroducingProfitableSimple Things Author:Michael Lewis
“If you're the kind of kid who thinks that all that's important in life is making money, Wall Street is probably still the place to go, especially now that Trump's elected.” IfsThinkingKindStillsImportantKidsLife IsStreetsWallTrumpMaking MoneyPlaces To Go Author:Michael Lewis
“In Wall Street now, you have to hide what you're doing. It's more fun when you don't have to do that. But I don't think its sense of purpose has changed at all.” ThinkingPurposeFunStreetsChangedWall Author:Michael Lewis
“My characters are actually usually pretty smart and admirable.” CharacterSmartAdmirable Author:Michael Lewis
“Just because you've been successful and just because you've disrupted an environment, doesn't mean you're a role model or that you actually have anything to teach anybody. There's an awful lot of luck and accident in the world, and maybe you were just on the receiving end of that.” WorldMeanEndsRolesTeachSuccessfulEnvironmentModelsLuckAccidentsAwfulRole ModelsReceiving Author:Michael Lewis