Michael Lewis Quotes

He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l.

The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.

I go through money like a bloke with three arms.

The windfall of great riches can, if mismanaged, make things worse, not better, for the recipients.

Luckily I have a brother who looks after my administration and my money, because I'm a total spendthrift.

Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending my money quite happily.

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

I realized that I should give serious attention to financial recovery … For ever since I took command of my affairs I had daily uncovered new evidence of … wastefulness.

We don't spend money properly in Washington, D.C. We jump these massive bills to massive bills.

There is not an amount of money that a writer can earn that I can't blow.

It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.

To be extravagant you need money. True. But you do not need your own money.

It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.

I had very deep concerns about my financial status because I found that up until "Let's Dance" I was virtually broke again. I had been so irresponsible in how I dealt with my financial affairs. I take full responsibility for that.

Disagreements over money are the biggest cause of divorce." She waved her hand. "Absolutely no problem. Your money is our money. My money is my money." She wrote away. "I should make you negotiate with Phoebe.

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.

The play account rule is that it must be spent every month. That's right! Each month you have to blow all the money in that account in a way that makes you feel rich. For example, imagine walking into a massage center, dumping all the money from your account on the counter, pointing to the massage therapists, and saying, "I want both of you on me. With the hot rocks and the frickin' cucumbers. After that, bring me lunch!"

Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people’s stuff.

All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.

The best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth downward, as poorer people tend to spend a higher proportion of their income.

A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion.

The aim of industrialization has always been to replace people with machines or other technology, to make the cost of production as low as possible, to sell the product as high as possible, and to move the wealth into fewer and fewer hands.

It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.

The concern that I have is that, as wealth continues to concentrate in the hands of a few, economic inequality grows, and power also becomes more unequal.