Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.

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.

Faith is courage.

I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It's fun.

Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.

Before music there was silence and the duet format allows you to build from the silence in a very special way.

We imagine people as animals or gods. -But she was just a person, a girl.

Why are we here on earth? To create. It's in our nature.

There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

We have within us the power to uplift ourselves. This power is our own awareness.

I think I am mad sometimes.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.