Michael Lewis Quotes About Failing

Quotes about: Failing

• In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.

  Michael Lewis

  Mother, Children, Japan

  Michael Lewis (1995). “Shame: The Exposed Self”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

• Managers tend to pick a strategy that is the least likely to fail, rather then to pick a strategy that is most efficient," Said Palmer. " The pain of looking bad is worse than the gain of making the best move.

  Michael Lewis

  Pain, Moving, Gains

• The idea that it's smart to allow Wall Street firms, with this "too big to fail" imprimatur, to become hedge funds again - it's unconscionable. You're essentially saying we're going to take some elites in our society and let them roll the bones in the marketplace, and if it works out they get rich, and if it doesn't work out the taxpayer comes in again. That seems absolutely crazy to me. That seems to be where they're headed. I mean, maybe they're not and I'm wrong. Maybe they'll do sensible things. It's hard to know! There doesn't seem to be a plan.

  Michael Lewis

  Wall, Crazy, Smart

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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