William Forsyth Sharpe quotes

“Love is a beautiful dream.”
-- William Forsyth Sharpe

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“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

Source : "Do You Want to Be Just Average?" by Larry Swedroe, www.cbsnews.com. June 9, 2010.

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“Some investments do have higher expected returns than others. Which ones? Well, by and large they're the ones that will do the worst in bad times.”
-- William Forsyth Sharpe

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“What if your advisor talks only about returns, not risk? ... It's his job to take risk into account by telling you the range of possible outcomes you face. If he won't, go to a new planner, someone who will get real.”
-- William Forsyth Sharpe

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“[What if my advisor talks only about returns, not risk?] ... It's his job to take risk into account by telling you the range of possible outcomes you face. If he won't, go get a new planner, someone who will get real.”
-- William Forsyth Sharpe

Source : "The man who explained it all". Interview with Jason Zweig, money.cnn.com. July 6, 2007.

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“Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.”

“Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. Winning is important to any man's or woman's sense of satisfaction and well-being. Winning is not everything; but it is something powerful, indeed beautiful, in itself, something as necessary to the strong spirit as striving is necessary to the healthy character.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

“As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.”

“The brands with which we surround ourselves prop us up, make us feel sexy and beautiful, when in reality we're pretty dumpy creatures.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“My beautiful soul,"he murmured and caressed my cheek."When you have the ultimate selfless sacrifice it paid my wrong.You proved to be worthy of my devotion.Of Death's...love.”

“Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.”

Source : Song: Almost Lover, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007

“My biggest dream to connect people through music has come true. In a world where there are enough reasons to separate us, the Oscars have unified us.”

“I dream of a true husband—a good man, not a brute, nor a champion of men on the battlefield; I dream but of a gentle man, one who neither speaks too loud nor ignores evil. I pray for such a like-minded mate, who will be ever for me like harmony to music, virtue to the soul, prosperity to the state, and forethought to the universe.”

“I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things – once commenced – only out of a feverish greed to be able to swallow the ending – sweet or sour – and to be done with what I need never have embarked on. Are you in my case? Or are you a more discriminating reader? Do you lay aside the unprofitable?”

“Shakira is a new friend, but I love her dearly already. She's so sweet and adorable and hilarious.”