William Forsyth Sharpe Quotes
Properly measured, the average actively managed dollar must underperform the average passively managed dollar, net of costs. Empirical analyses that appear to refute this principle are guilty of improper measurement.William Forsyth Sharpe
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The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis.
Talcott Parsons -
I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.
Camille Paglia -
The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
Samuel Alexander -
To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
Walter Pater -
My biggest fear in life is to be average.
M. Night Shyamalan
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What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.
Hans Hofmann -
In therapy you sit down; in analysis you lie down.
Rachel Weisz -
Because the eternal principle of agency gives us the freedom to choose and think for ourselves, we should become increasingly able to solve problems. We may make the occasional mistake, but as long as we are following gospel principles and guidelines, we can learn from those mistakes and become more understanding of others and more effective in serving them.
M. Russell Ballard -
They're about dimes and dollars. A few dimes to you in tax cuts, many, many dollars to banks and oil companies.
Jack Layton -
Give me a dollar or I'll spit on you.
Louis Sachar -
The Age of Average gave us a lot. Take clothing: We've all benefited remarkably from large, medium and small sizes making things affordable and available, but when it really counts - the wedding gown and the pressurized fighter pilot suit - it's bespoke all the way.
L. Todd Rose
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When you cannot answer a skeptic, be content to wait for more light; but never forsake a great principle.
J. C. Ryle -
The biggest engineering companies, like Schlumberger, Halliburton and others, have technology they spent billions of dollars developing.
Vagit Alekperov -
Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all the way down to the molecular level.
E. O. Wilson -
The federal government began investigating allegations of fraud against the Coalition Provisional Authority, a U.S. contractor accused in a bid-rigging operation involving millions of dollars. Asked to comment, a spokesperson for Halliburton said, 'Millions? With an M? That is adorable.'
Amy Poehler -
Circumstances should never alter principles!
Oscar Wilde -
The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles.
R. H. Tawney
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He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.
Oscar Wilde -
I simply can't wear an outfit if I don't feel that is right for me.
Tahar Rahim -
I've never been that uncomfortable talking about it. Things come out [in the media] about me. When it's out, it's someone else's version of what's the matter with me. I want it to be my version of what it is. My recourse is to do my version.
Carrie Fisher -
The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
Walt Whitman -
Properly measured, the average actively managed dollar must underperform the average passively managed dollar, net of costs. Empirical analyses that appear to refute this principle are guilty of improper measurement.
William Forsyth Sharpe