The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work. - Michael Lewis

The more money to be made gaming the financial markets, the more people would decide they were put on earth to game the financial markets – and create romantic narratives to explain to themselves why a life spent gaming the financial markets is a purposeful life.

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.

A thought crossed his mind: How do you make poor people feel wealthy when wages are stagnant? You give them cheap loans.