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

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?

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.

An apple tree is just like a person. In order to thrive, it needs companionship that's similar to it in some ways, but quite different than others.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting and of all relationships.

A tree depicts divinest plan But God himself lives in a man.

An album is a thing you take time out and go work on.

Questions about acting are difficult.

The Joan Crawford that I've heard about in 'Mommie Dearest' is not the Joan Crawford I knew back when.

Video games paid for my house. What am I saying? Go ahead and keep playing!

The irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent aspect of death.

The things that prey on my mind in London seem to disappear as soon as I find myself in a different environment. Survival mode kicks in.

Quack: A boastful pretender to arts which he does not understand. A vain boastful pretender to physick; An artful, tricking practitioner in physick.