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
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Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
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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.
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Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
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I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
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My experience has offered me the sensibility that encourages me to try newer characters.
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My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.
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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!
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Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.
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I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.
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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.
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I always knew I wanted to work in entertainment, but I actually really wanted to be a singer more than an actress.
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You can never solve a problem without talking to people with whom you disagree. The United States Senate is predicated and based on consensus building. That was certainly the vision of the founding fathers.
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You can really examine the suffering and consequences that happen when there's a loss in a family.
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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.
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You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life.
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My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.
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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
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You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.
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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.
