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.

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.

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.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

I believe God spoke to you at cliffs. Her hand came to rest on the top of my head. But perhaps you weren't truly listening

Better to be a successful failure, than to fail at success.

Clutter, either mental or physical, is the sign of a healthy curiosity.

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

True creativity is more likely if you are more relaxed

I get criticized for taking roles in films like Ghost Rider 2, but if you look at my résumé, dude, I've mixed it up as much as I can.

Name 12 players better than me.

I know who I am. I don't see myself as this whoever they see me as.

Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.