David F. Swensen Quotes
When you look at the results on an after-fee, after-tax basis over reasonably long periods of time, there's almost no chance that you end up beating the index fund.
Quotes to Explore
-
Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
-
Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
-
I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
-
The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.
-
Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
-
I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
-
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
-
Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
-
My experience has offered me the sensibility that encourages me to try newer characters.
-
My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.
-
The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
-
Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.
-
I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.
-
The appointment of judges to the higher judiciary cannot be the sole domain of a few members of the higher judiciary. This turf must be shared.
-
I always knew I wanted to work in entertainment, but I actually really wanted to be a singer more than an actress.
-
You can really examine the suffering and consequences that happen when there's a loss in a family.
-
My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you.
-
Working on 'The War Room' was a thrill, not only because we were given such exquisite access to the nerve center of Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign, but for me personally, it was so exciting to be producing my first film and working with documentary filmmaking legends D.A. Pannebaker and Chris Hegedus, who were the film's directors.
-
One can fall in love and still hate.
-
I congratulate you both on a fine piece of work which I am sure will ultimately prove of importance. I am personally very much interested in your results... In the past I have tried a number of experiments... but without any success.
-
I consider myself very lucky, essentially - I was put into a pop group even though my musical taste was very niche before.
-
Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
-
When you look at the results on an after-fee, after-tax basis over reasonably long periods of time, there's almost no chance that you end up beating the index fund.
