People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between.

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.

When you run out of love, it’s really hard to understand whether you have lost your heart or your heart has lost you…

All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough.

I work for men that I would love to meet, somebody who I could fall in love with, someone who intrigues me.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Getting that first draft out is a horribly hard grind, but that (perversely) is where the joy of it lies.

I regard a great ad as the most beautiful thing in the world.

I've been good at product entrepreneuring.

It felt really good to kind of find my voice and say stuff, and to be funny, hopefully.

If a piece of worthless stone can bruise a cup of gold, its worth is not increased, nor that of the gold diminished.