Bill Gross Quotes

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• Finding the best person or the best organization to invest your money is one of the most important financial decisions you'll ever make.

  Bill Gross

  Organization, Decision, Important

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• The market can move for irrational reasons, and you have to be prepared for that, ... you need to make big bets when the odds are in your favor -- not big enough to ruin you, but big enough to make a difference.

  Bill Gross

  Moving, Odds, Differences

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• Bond investors are the vampires of the investment world. They love decay, recession - anything that leads to low inflation and the protection of the real value of their loans.

  Bill Gross

  Real, Vampire, Decay

  Bill Gross (2012). “Everything You've Heard About Investing Is Wrong!: How to Profit in Coming Post-Bull Markets”, p.51, Crown Business

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• Both from the standpoint of stocks and bonds, an investor wants to go where the growth is.

  Bill Gross

  Growth, Want, Standpoint

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• With all this consumer debt, business debt, government debt, smaller movements in interest rates have a magnified effect. a small movement can tip the boat.

  Bill Gross

  Government, Movement, Debt

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• Do you really like a particular stock? Put 10% or so of your portfolio on it. Make the idea count … Good [investment] ideas should not be diversified away into meaningless oblivion.

  Bill Gross

  Ideas, Portfolios, Oblivion

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• Bonds despite their ridiculous yields will not easily be threatened with a new bear market.

  Bill Gross

  Yield, Bears, Ridiculous

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• We are witnessing the death of abundance and the borning of austerity, for what may be a long, long time.

  Bill Gross

  Long, May, Austerity

  "BILL GROSS: 'We Are Witnessing The Death Of Abundance'" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. February 01, 2012.

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• Whenever I read the newspaper, I say to myself, 'At least my wife loves me.'

  Bill Gross

  Wife, Wives Love, Newspapers

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• I have a 41-year track record of investing excellence… what do you have?

  Bill Gross

  Years, Track, Excellence

  "Bill Gross reportedly earns $290m bonus even as investors withdrew billions from Pimco funds" by Heidi Moore, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2014.

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• When you're underperforming the index, you go home at night and cry in your beer. It's not fun, but who said this business should be fun. We're too well paid to hang our heads and say boo hoo.

  Bill Gross

  Fun, Home, Beer

  "Bill Gross: 'Do I Wish I Had More Treasuries?'" by Courtney Comstock, www.businessinsider.com. August 29, 2011.

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• People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between.

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  Lying, Reality, People

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• When does money run out of time? The countdown begins when investable assets pose too much risk for too little return; when lenders desert credit markets for other alternatives such as cash or real assets.

  Bill Gross

  Running, Real, Risk

  "Credit Supernova!" by Bill Gross, www.pimco.com. February 2013.

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• When the tide goes out, you get to see who's swimming naked. PIMCO has had its bathing suit on for a long time

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  Swimming, Long, Naked

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• Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for "machines" are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren't enough of those jobs.

  Bill Gross

  Jobs, Writing, Political

  "Strawberry Fields - Forever?" by William H. "Bill" Gross, www.pimco.com. December 2012.

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• Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin was good.

  Bill Gross

  Brilliant, Mutual Fund, Fidelity

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• If companies don't know that they can run out of money, they won't be thinking of ways not to run out of money.

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  Running, Thinking, Way

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• Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.

  Bill Gross

  Mean, Human Nature, Institutions

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• You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses.

  Bill Gross

  Butterfly, Chasing Butterflies, Rose

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• Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.

  Bill Gross

  Gdp, Growth, Debt

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• In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well. It seems, perhaps, that the longer and longer you keep at it in this business the more and more time you have to expose your Achilles heel - wherever and whatever that might be.

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  Doors, Icons, Might

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• Bond investors want growth much like equity investors, and to the extent that too much austerity leads to recession or stagnation then credit spreads widen out - even if a country can print its own currency and write its own cheques.

  Bill Gross

  Country, Writing, Growth

  "Eurozone crisis live: Brussels hints at austerity rethink as opposition mounts - as it happened" by Graeme Wearden, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2013.

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• Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders.

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  Return, Equity, Expenses

  "In His Best Letter In A Long Time, Bill Gross Explains Why Stocks Are Going To Be Horrible Investments" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. July 31, 2012.

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• Dollar depreciation leads to higher inflation and ultimately forces foreign creditors to question their rationale and indeed their sanity for continuing purchases of U.S. Treasuries.

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  Dollars, Sanity, Creditors

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• Be cautious and content with low positive returns in 2015. The time for risk taking has passed.

  Bill Gross

  Risk, Return, Lows

  "Bill Gross: 'The Good Times Are Over'" by Myles Udland, www.businessinsider.com. January 6, 2015.

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