"Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know."
— Michael Lewis (Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street)

"Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . ."
— Michael Lewis (Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity)

"The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.’s in man’s ignorance."
— Michael Lewis (Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street)

"He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing."
— Michael Lewis (Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street)

"Make It Happen"
— Michael Lewis

"I was gonna put him on the bus...I got tired of him talking, it was time for him to go home."
— Michael Lewis (The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game)