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• Index funds have regularly produced rates of return exceeding those of active managers by close to 2 percentage points. Active management as a whole cannot achieve gross returns exceeding the market as a while and therefore they must, on average, underperform the indexes by the amount of these expense and transaction costs disadvantages.

  Burton Malkiel

  Average, Cost, Investing

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• The railroads are not run for the benefit of the dear public. That cry is nonsense. They are built for men who invest their money and expect to get a fair percentage of the same.

  William Henry Vanderbilt

  Running, Money, Men

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• While it is probably a poor idea to own actively managed funds in general, it is truly a terrible idea to own them in taxable accounts... taxes are a drag on performance of up to 4 percentage points each year... many index funds allow your capital gains to grow largely undisturbed until you sell... For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.

  William J. Bernstein

  Sorry, Mean, Years

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• The genius of America is production; and a large percentage of our productive enterprises are headed by men who have come up from the worker's bench.

  William S. Knudsen

  Men, America, Genius

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• But the indisputable fact is, a huge percentage of Obama's voters are basically wards of the state. There are millions of them, and they have no intention of voting for anyone who might want them to ever go out and work for a living - 'no matter what.

  Howie Carr

  Voting, Want, Might

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• We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index.

  Charles M. Vest

  Growth, Boards, Cost

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• And then to end up with a total of 347 wins, averaging 10 regular season wins for 33 years and the best winning percentage, and I'm very proud of this, of any professional team from 1970 to 1996.

  Don Shula

  Sports, Team, Winning

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• In 1998 Harry Reid and I had a very close race. It was less than a tenth of a percentage point. We had a reasonable recount. There were a lot of things that I could have pursued at the time, but I just felt that at the time that I should have, you know, conceded the race.

  John Ensign

  Race, Should Have, Conceded

  "Sen. John Ensign on the Senate's Wild First Day". "The Hannity & Colmes Show", www.realclearpolitics.com. January 6, 2009.

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• Whitesnake more than most rock bands would get a very significant percentage of women in the audience and those were the ones I'd hear the voices because from where I am on stage is a pretty good spot.

  David Coverdale

  Rocks, Voice, Band

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• You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.

  Iain Glen

  Actors, Spoilt, Ifs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I give a percentage of the earnings to the Motion Picture Home.

  James MacArthur

  Home, Giving, Earning

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• It's angering that not everybody has signed this treaty to ban landmines. It's disgusting, it really is, because it is fact that (mines) hurt a high percentage of civilians. They're not effective in any other real way. They've enough weapons for war.

  Angelina Jolie

  Hurt, Real, War

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• Agriculture's not insulated from having a percentage of people who might be really good old graziers, but they're no good as business people.

  Barry O'Sullivan

  Agriculture, People, Might

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process.

  John Lewis

  Mean, Past, Ohio

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• There's a very small percentage of people that take limos to school and have $2000 handbags - no one in my high school had that!

  Jessica Szohr

  School, People, Handbags

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• All of our competitors around the world, every country is investing more in infrastructure as a percentage of their GDP than we are. And down the road our children and grandchildren will have to compete with that more and more.

  Douglas R Oberhelman

  Country, Children, Gdp

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• Technology has changed, and we need to figure out how to improve the archaic way of what makes a hit, or how to determine how many viewers are watching beyond some people with Nielsen boxes in a small percentage of homes in random areas.

  Jim Rash

  Home, Technology, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performance.

  Mary McDonnell

  Emotional, Vocabulary, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age, the past is more present than the here and now. And there is not much percentage in the future.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Thinking, Past, Age

  "Family Matters". Book by Rohinton Mistry, 2002.

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• Many unions have contracts with employers that are based on a multiple of the prevailing minimum wage. If the minimum wage goes up, union salaries go up by a similar percentage.

  Neal Boortz

  Salary, Minimum Wage, Unions

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• I am almost certain fishermen posess a peculiar bend to their makeup. Fisherman are optimists, and the fish in the future is always preferable to the fish at hand. Even the best fishermen catch fish only a small percentage of the time, which means we persevere in a sport that features failure as its main ingredient. Truly great days, when the fish hammer the fly as soon as it lands on the water are rare.

  Joseph Monninger

  Sports, Mean, Makeup

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• Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.

  Tony Gilroy

  Play, Directors, Actors

  "Talking With Tony Gilroy". Online discuss, www.washingtonpost.com. September 27, 2007.

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• The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.

  Ed Gillespie

  Home, African American, Today

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• A very large percentage of economic activity is shifting online and it makes sense that there are more services that are going to charge. It also means there are going to be more people willing to pay.

  Marc Andreessen

  Mean, People, Pay

  "Ning will make all users pay" by Douglas MacMillan, www.sfgate.com. August 12, 2010.

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• There will be certain points of time when everything collides together and reaches critical mass around a new concept or a new thing that ends up being hugely relevant to a high percentage of people or businesses. But it's really really hard to predict those. I don't believe anyone can.

  Marc Andreessen

  Believe, People, Together

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