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“A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will.”

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Michael Lewis, born on October 15, 1960, is a renowned American author. His works are known for their in-depth investigations and revelations of the truths in the financial, business, and sports worlds. more

“People really don't like to hear success explained away as luck — especially successful people. As they age, and succeed, people feel their success was somehow inevitable. They don't want to acknowledge the role played by accident in their lives. There is a reason for this: the world does not want to acknowledge it either. If you use better data, you can find better values; there are always market inefficiencies to exploit, and so on. But it has a broader and less practical message: don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them. Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation.”

People World Want Feels Reason Age Roles Successful Huge Amount Succeed Luck Accidents Obligation Inevitable Acknowledge Outcomes Successful People Deceived

Author:Michael Lewis

“The world clings to its old mental picture of the stock market because it’s comforting; because it’s so hard to draw a picture of what has replaced it; and because the few people able to draw it for you have no interest in doing so.”

People World Hard Able Interest Draws Old Man Replaced Comforting

Author:Michael Lewis

“If you're digging a hole in the wrong place, making it deeper doesn't help anything.”

Ifs Helping Deeper Holes Digging Digging A Hole

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“There is nothing glamorous in what I do. I'm a working man. Perhaps I’m luckier than most in that I receive considerable satisfaction from doing useful work which I, and sometimes others, think is good.”

Thinking Men Sometimes Satisfaction Glamorous Working Man

Author:Saul Bass

“Sometimes when an idea flashes, you distrust it because it seems too easy. You qualify it with all kinds of evasive phrases because you’re timid about it. But often, this turns out to be the best idea of all.”

Kind Ideas Sometimes Seems Turns Easy All Kinds Phrases Being The Best Flash Distrust Bass

Author:Saul Bass

“The ideal trademark is one that is pushed to its utmost limits in terms of abstraction and ambiguity, yet is still readable. Trademarks are usually metaphors of one kind or another. And are, in a certain sense, thinking made visible.”

Thinking Kind Made Stills Certain Term Limits Ideals Metaphor Visible Abstraction Ambiguity Trademarks

Author:Saul Bass

“For the average audience, the credits tell them there's only three minutes left to eat popcorn. I take this ‘dead’ period and try to do more than simply get rid of names that filmgoers aren't interested in. I aim to set up the audience for what's coming; make them expectant.”

Trying Three Names Left Audience Minutes Periods Aim Average Credit Popcorn

Author:Saul Bass

“My initial thoughts about what a title can do was to set mood and the prime underlying core of the film's story, to express the story in some metaphorical way. I saw the title as a way of conditioning the audience, so that when the film actually began, viewers would already have an emotional resonance with it.”

Way Stories Film Can Do Audience Saws Emotional Core Mood Titles Prime Viewers Initials Conditioning Resonance Metaphorical

Author:Saul Bass

“The nature of process, to one degree or another, involves failure. You have at it. It doesn’t work. You keep pushing. It gets better. But it’s not good. It gets worse. You got at it again. Then you desperately stab at it, believing “this isn’t going to work.” And it does!”

Believe Doe Process Degrees Get Better Pushing Going To Work It Gets Better Pushing It

Author:Saul Bass

“I often think that presentations are more difficult than the work itself.”

Thinking Difficult Presentation

Author:Saul Bass

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