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.

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.

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.

Truth is made only for one reason to be deep down in the ocean as for the top part, they should be the lies... this is the iceberg.

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.

Can I come in? No! I'm in a towel! I'm blind!

With age, I have become both more pious and more shameless.

I'm an avid cook. Brazilian, some Italian, a little French. And I often throw dinner parties.

When we experience our fear, when we say the words "I am scared," we have the choice, the ability to acknowledge that being 'scared' is not who we are. It is not our identity.

Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.

There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.