A vast industry of stockbrokers, financial planners, and investment advisers skims a fortune for themselves off the top in exchange for passing their clients' money on to people who, as a whole, cannot possibly outperform the market.
Michael LewisDon't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them.
Michael LewisThere's a certain status to suffering in Ireland, that the person who - if you're sitting around a table, the person with the greatest status is the person who had the most horrible thing happen to them most recently.
Michael LewisThat's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.
Michael Lewis