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.

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.

My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create anxiety if I do not do it. No one lives up to his ideal.

I swallowed hard and said as calmly as possible, “There’s been a murder. I don’t know what happened. The address is two-two-zero three Devonshire Court.

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.

Inspiring passion in family and friends has more enduring value than just staying alive for them.

I have a slight addiction to Diet Coke, and, of course, I absolutely shouldn't touch it because it makes the kidneys work really hard.

I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.

If God answered all of your prayers, would the world look different or just your life?

To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.

I think there is something to being curious about your choices, but not wanting to kind of pierce the bubble of them, because it takes away from the act of discovering.

I find the songs that have the most human components in production are the ones that will stand the test of time.