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
  • Study
  • Matter
  • Analysis

• I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Party
  • Principles
  • Democrat

• The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Character
  • Human
  • Analysis

• The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Simple
  • Act
  • Analysis

• 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
  • Thought
  • Modern
  • Principles

• My biggest fear in life is to be average.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Average

• 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
  • Time
  • Art
  • Principles

• In therapy you sit down; in analysis you lie down.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Down
  • Lie
  • Analysis

• 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
  • Long
  • May
  • Freedom

• They're about dimes and dollars. A few dimes to you in tax cuts, many, many dollars to banks and oil companies.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Tax
  • Dollars
  • Dimes

• It seems hopelessly improbable that any particular rules accidentally led to the miracle of intelligent life. Nevertheless, this is exactly what most physicists have believed: intelligent life is a purely serendipitous consequence of physical principles that have nothing to do with our own existence.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Life
  • Intelligent
  • Miracle

• Give me a dollar or I'll spit on you.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Giving
  • Dollars
  • Give Me

• That was one of my most surprising discoveries when I dug into the history of average-ism: When you actually get the data, it rarely captures anyone. Which then begs the question, why are we using this as a reference standard for human beings?

  

  L. Todd Rose
  • Why
  • History
  • Question

• 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
  • Age
  • Small
  • Wedding

• When you cannot answer a skeptic, be content to wait for more light; but never forsake a great principle.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Great
  • Light
  • Waiting

• The biggest engineering companies, like Schlumberger, Halliburton and others, have technology they spent billions of dollars developing.

  

  Vagit Alekperov
  • Technology
  • Engineering
  • Dollars

• 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
  • Principles
  • Levels
  • Variation

• Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, it’s an embarrassment. Women deserve equal pay for equal work.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Work
  • Men

• In a way then, the Divine Principle, this new revelation, is the documentary of my life. It is my own life experience. The Divine Principle is in me, and I am in the Divine Principle.

  

  Sun Myung Moon
  • Way
  • Principles
  • Divine

• If you got a hit every third time that you went up to bat in the major leagues, you'd be the greatest hitter of all time. I think my average is a little better than that.

  

  Brad Williams
  • Average
  • Hit
  • Major Leagues

• I am a five-foot six-inch, dark, ordinary-looking man. People didn't imagine that I would make it.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Man
  • Dark

• But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Hope
  • Think
  • Science

• 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
  • Principles
  • Average
  • Dollars