# Quote — Michael Lewis, The Big Short

> All that was clear that the profits to be had from smart people making complicated bets overwhelmed anything that could be had from servicing customers, or allocating capital to productive enterprise.

- Author: [Michael Lewis](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-lewis.md)
- Book: [The Big Short](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-lewis/the-big-short.md)
- Page: 258
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Lewis_(author)#The_Big_Short_(2010)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-lewis/the-big-short/all-that-was

## More from this book

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

p. 14 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-lewis/the-big-short/a-thought-crossed.md)

> the more he studied Buffet, the less he thought he could be copied; indeed, the lesson of Buffet was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.

p. 35 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-lewis/the-big-short/the-more-he-studied.md)

> Why isn't someone smarter than us doing this?

p. 108 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-lewis/the-big-short/why-isnt-someone.md)