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Quotes About Active

So many people know about the dangers of sunbeds but when you have a busy active lifestyle you need a product that you can use quickly and doesn't streak or leave you with orange hands.
~ Peter Andre
I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.
~ Courteney Cox
I used to be an athlete and even ran the 400 metre stretch for Tamil Nadu. I have always been active.
~ Arjun Rampal
A Jewish community that is diverse and openly embraces all who seek to lead actively Jewish lives will be a Jewish community that is stronger and more enduring for generations to come.
~ Lynn Schusterman
Love isn't a perfect state of caring. It's an active noun, like 'struggle.'
~ Fred Rogers
I've always played sport. I played rugby, I was involved in athletics, I played cricket... I'm an outdoors kind of guy.
~ Jai Courtney
I was really active as a kid. I was outdoors constantly.
~ Beth Riesgraf
I'm an outdoors kind of guy.
~ John Sandford
Our kids are super outgoing and energetic, and they definitely don't stay in the house at all.
~ Eric Weddle
I'm very outgoing. I have a lot of energy.
~ Brigitte Nielsen
I guess I compete in everything I do, but it's always good to get out and be active and find an outlet for all of that pent-up aggression you had as an athlete.
~ Chris Borland
If you look at the leading Indian IT companies, Cognizant is not active in business process outsourcing, and neither is Satyam.
~ Shiv Nadar
And even though I am overweight, I am not lethargic.
~ Kiku Sharda
by admitting a new perception of space and giving it an active sense, is it not possible to discover a new unexpected, unexplored world?
~ Toru Takemitsu
Creativity is not passive, I don't see the creation of art as passive.
~ James Kelman
An old art spreading rumours about / Paradise, it begs outside the gates / Of the gods: the active gods come out.
~ Peter Porter
In the search [of a deal], we adopt the same attitude one might find appropriate in looking for a spouse: It pays to be active, interested, and open-minded, but it does not pay to be in a hurry.
~ Warren Buffett
An inverse relationship exists between efficiency in asset pricing and appropriate degree of active management. Passive management strategies suit highly efficient markets, such as U.S. Treasury bonds, where market returns drive results and active management adds little or nothing. Active management strategies fit inefficient markets, such as private equity, where market returns contribute very little to ultimate results and investment selection provides the fundamental source of return.
~ David F. Swensen
Finance theory teaches that active management of marketable securities constitutes a negative-sum game, as the aggregate of active security-selection efforts must fall short of the passive alternative by the amount of the fees, commissions, and market impact that it costs to play the game.
~ David F. Swensen
Emphasizing inefficiently priced asset classes with interesting active management opportunities increases the odds of investment success. Intelligent acceptance of illiquidity and a value orientation constitute a sensible, conservative approach to portfolio management.
~ David F. Swensen
The harsh reality of the negative-sum game dictates that, in aggregate, active managers lose to the market by the amount it costs to play in the form of management fees, trading commissions, and dealer spread. Wall Street's share of the pie defines the amount of performance drag experienced by the would-be market beaters.
~ David F. Swensen
Within the realm of active equity management, investors inhabit a perverse world where higher fees correspond to lower returns. In the broader universe that includes active and passive management, index funds exhibit a dramatic cost advantage over their actively managed counterparts. Well-informed investors recognize that fund fees matter.
~ David F. Swensen
Following the evidence, I concluded that individuals fare best by constructing equity-oriented, broadly diversified portfolios without the active management component. Instead of pursuing ephemeral promises of market-beating strategies, individuals benefit from adopting the ironclad reality of market-mimicking portfolios managed by not-for-profit investment organizations. The
~ David F. Swensen
Entropy is only ever tamed by the counteracting investment of active energy to bring some order and structure to your week.
~ Unknown