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Michael Lewis
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Michael Lewis
Age: 63
Born: 1960
Born: October 15
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Michael M. Lewis
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It's such a pain in the ass to write a book, I can't imagine writing one if I'm not interested in the subject.
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All that was clear that the profits to be had from smart people making complicated bets overwhelmed anything that could be had from servicing customers, or allocating capital to productive enterprise.
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My judgement is not good when I am on a book tour. I am not thinking about it that much. What happens is I will go back home. I have a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old and a wife who is now taking care of them who is wondering where her husband is.
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That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.
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Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.
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People dislike uncertainty so much that they will impose an order on it even when it doesn't exist.
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I'd stumbled into a job at Salomon Brothers in 1985, and stumbled out, richer, in 1988, and even though I wrote a book about the experience, the whole thing still strikes me me as totally preposterous-which is one reason the money was so easy to walk away from.
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He's a machine for competitive balance, ... Yes, the money is in New York. Yes, the money is in his hands. But he squanders money. Thank God for it.
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