Michael Lewis Quotes

We can either have a hard decade or a bad century.

If individuals have no sufficient reason to believe that a good situation today will have adverse long-term consequences, it must always be rational for them to aim to maximize their short-term good.

There is only one conflict, and that’s between short-term and long-term thinking.

The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one. A Stanford study showed that those who saw a photo of their future self made smarter financial decisions.

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

Our interests and our preferences may or may not be the same thing at the same time …. The unswerving pursuit of preferences over interests may compromise the advancement and protection of both.

The future is purchased by the present.

How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?

Delayed gratification is a sweet lesson whose teacher knows the best is not right now, it is yet to be.

By ignoring tomorrow, we undermine today.

We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future.

Always think twice before you decide to do anything for a film. It may seem like a career-changing idea, but think of your family and your future before doing anything risky. Train properly, because looking strong and being strong are two different things.

Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.

It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.

We're so used to thinking in the short term, and the minute you speak in more long-term language then you tend to get dismissed as utopian and so on. We have a real problem here in making long-term thinking respectable

If our children do not see a future, the will not pay the price required in the present.

…working not for the small pleasures of today but for the future security and improvement of the race.

It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be.

Burke ever held, and held rightly, that it can seldom be right . . . to sacrifice a present benefit for a doubtful advantage in the future. . . . It is therefore the happiness of our own contemporaries that is our main concern

I live in the present with an eye on the future.

I will always need to compromise and make choices - you just have to work hard at making the right choice day by day.

One must say no to some opportunities to open the possibilities of others.

You cannot eat your cake and have it.

If you think about the long term then you can really make good life decisions that you won’t regret later.

To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage.