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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And truths, these days, are spokenThe same way promises are made, With gritted teeth and crossed fingers.

There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out.

Being honest about where you come from and what your story is is the only way to connect to other people, to really connect with them.

Love is the most beautiful thing in the world. Unfortunately, it's also one of the hardest things in the world to hold on to, and one of the easiest things to throw away.

I'm going through a phase where I'm really accomplishing a lot of things and in that is everything I've learned.

To stay youthful, stay useful.

The difference between camels and men; a camel can work a week and not drink; a man can drink a week and not work.

Are you making life or is life making you?

For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.

A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.