Bill Gross Quotes

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

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.

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.

Why is it possible to rescue S&L buccaneers in the early '90s and provide guidance to levered Wall Street investment bankers during the 1998 long-term capital management crisis, yet throw 2 million homeowners to the wolves in 2007?

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

I would admit I'm an introvert. I don't know why introverts have to apologize.

The U.K. and almost all of Europe have erred in terms of believing that austerity, fiscal austerity in the short term, is the way to produce real growth. It is not. You've got to spend money.

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

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

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.

Whether a tops-down or bottoms-up investor in bonds, stocks, or private equity, the standard analysis tends to judge an investor or his firm on the basis of how the bullish or bearish aspects of the cycle were managed.

Damn inflation, full speed ahead,' Greenspan has said in both action and word. I think an investor should believe him and invest accordingly.

Americans now know that housing prices can go down and they can go down by 10, 20, 30, and in some cases, 40 or 50 percent. We know they can go down. But five years ago, we thought they could only go up.

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

Pay per click was just the beginning. The real evolution is pay per action.

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

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

If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money.

My clients don't pay me to feel sorry; they pay me to bring them money. I am tough, but I have a soft side.

Obama/Romney, Romney/Obama - the most important election of our lifetime? Fact is they're all the same - bought and paid for with the same money. Ours is a country of the SuperPAC, by the SuperPAC, and for the SuperPAC.

Well, I, you know, I think at PIMCO we always try and be open with the press and the public. I mean, isn't that what voters want from their politicians? Mohamed El-Erian, our CEO, writes several op-eds a week.

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

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.

Imperceptibly, the developed world's manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008.

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.

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