Bill Gross Best Quotes & Sayings

I would admit I'm an introvert. I don't know why introverts have to apologize. — Bill Gross

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

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. — Bill Gross

I always thought of myself as being part of a family and sharing and, yes, leading, but not forcing people to do anything. — Bill Gross

The woods were full of peril - rattlesnakes and water moccasins and nests of copperheads; bobcats, bears, coyotes, wolves, and wild boar; loony hillbillies destabilized by gross quantities of impure corn liquor and generations of profoundly unbiblical sex; rabies-crazed skunks, raccoons, and squirrels; merciless fire ants and ravening blackfly; poison ivy, poison sumac, poison oak, and poison salamanders; even a scattering of moose lethally deranged by a parasitic worm that burrows a nest in their brains and befuddles them into chasing hapless hikers through remote, sunny meadows and into glacial lakes. — Bill Bryson

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

We are witnessing the death of abundance and the borning of austerity, for what may be a long, long time. — Bill Gross

I am obsessed with delivering value to investors and winning the game from a personal standpoint. — Bill Gross

Both from the standpoint of stocks and bonds, an investor wants to go where the growth is. — Bill Gross

Finding the best person or the best organization to invest your money is one of the most important financial decisions you'll ever make. — Bill Gross

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. — Bill Gross

It's going to be difficult to stimulate the real economy in the U.S. at a faster rate than 2 percent and perhaps even less if we have that fiscal cliff in December or January 2013. — Bill Gross

Pay per click was just the beginning. The real evolution is pay per action. — Bill Gross

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. — Bill Gross

You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses. — Bill Gross

Well, I, you know, I think at PIMCO we always try and be open with the press and the public. I mean, isn't that what voters want from their politicians? Mohamed El-Erian, our CEO, writes several op-eds a week. — Bill Gross

Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders. — Bill Gross

Damn inflation, full speed ahead,' Greenspan has said in both action and word. I think an investor should believe him and invest accordingly. — Bill Gross

Bill was wrestling with his undercooked chicken. "Wow," I remarked while examining my own plate. "I don't think I can eat this."
"I know. It's gross," he conceded. "But it's free, so I scarf down seconds each night."
"As a dog returneth to his vomit," I said, while making the sign of the cross in the air in front of me.
"Amen," he agreed with his mouth full, and toasted me with his 7Up can. — Hope Jahren

Bond investors want growth much like equity investors, and to the extent that too much austerity leads to recession or stagnation then credit spreads widen out - even if a country can print its own currency and write its own cheques. — Bill Gross

Imperceptibly, the developed world's manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008. — Bill Gross

I have a 41-year track record of investing excellence ... what do you have? — Bill Gross

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. — Bill Gross

Loony hillbillies destabilized by gross quantities of impure corn liquor and generations of profoundly unbiblical sex; — Bill Bryson

Bernanke and company are trying to reflate the economy with almost stated objective of inflation at 2 percent and higher in order to provide some type of safety margin for a future recession. That's where they want to go. — Bill Gross

Bonds as an asset class will always be needed, and not just by insurance companies and pension funds but by aging boomers. — Bill Gross

I wasn't really driven to be an actor or anything, but in college I decided to study acting, much to my parents' disappointment. I attended Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers where Bill Esper was, and that is where I really got hooked on the art of acting, and, almost, the chemistry of acting. — Roger Bart

Americans now know that housing prices can go down and they can go down by 10, 20, 30, and in some cases, 40 or 50 percent. We know they can go down. But five years ago, we thought they could only go up. — Bill Gross

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up. — Bill Gross

What the Obama administration's policies have really been oriented towards have always been towards providing benefits continuing consumption. What this country needs really is a policy which stresses investments. — Bill Gross

Dollar depreciation leads to higher inflation and ultimately forces foreign creditors to question their rationale and indeed their sanity for continuing purchases of U.S. Treasuries. — Bill Gross

When the tide goes out, you get to see who's swimming naked. PIMCO has had its bathing suit on for a long time — Bill Gross