# Quote — Michael Lewis, The Big Short

> I'd stumbled into a job at Salomon Brothers in 1985, and stumbled out, richer, in 1988, and even though I wrote a book about the experience, the whole thing still strikes me me as totally preposterous-which is one reason the money was so easy to walk away from.

- Author: [Michael Lewis](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-lewis.md)
- Book: [The Big Short](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-lewis/the-big-short.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-lewis/the-big-short/id-stumbled-into

## 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)