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.

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.

A sailor is not defined as much by how many seas he has sailed than by how many storms he has overcome.

Sometimes fate is what you make it, and I'm making my life with you.

Black implies white self implies other

The holy grail for a music fan, I think, is to hear music from another planet, which has not been influenced by us whatsoever.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

I made my first album, and I guess it wasn't a fluke, because now I'm on my 16th.

It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud.

I do not know. [summarising his life's work]

A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium.

Life is a movie; death is a photograph.