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Bill Gross is a distinguished financial manager and investor, born on April 13, 1944. He has made substantial contributions to the field of finance throughout his career. Gross is best known for his role as the co-founder and co-chief investment officer of PIMCO, one of the world's largest investment management firms. His innovative investment strategies and leadership have had a profound impact on the industry.

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“Bonds despite their ridiculous yields will not easily be threatened with a new bear market.”

Bears Ridiculous Despite Yield Threatened

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“Be cautious and content with low positive returns in 2015. The time for risk taking has passed.”

Risk Return Lows Cautious Risk-taking Be Cautious

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

Thinking Should Believe Said Action Speed Damn Investors Inflation

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“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.”

Government Interest Effects Movement Rate Debt Boat Consumers Interest Rate Government Debt

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“You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses.”

Knows Rose Butterfly Chasing Adages Chasing Butterflies

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“Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin was good.”

Brilliant Managers Fund Mutual Peter Exes Fidelity Mutual Fund

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“I would admit Im an introvert. I dont know why introverts have to apologize.”

Knows Apologizing Introvert

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“When does money run out of time? The countdown begins when investable assets pose too much risk for too little return; when lenders desert credit markets for other alternatives such as cash or real assets.”

Littles Doe Real Running Too Much Risk Return Credit Alternatives Desert Assets Cash Lenders Countdown

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

People Different Reality Lying Impression

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“Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders.”

Company Return Expenses Equity Compounds Lenders

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“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.”

World Economy Finance Destroyed Replaced Manufacturing

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“Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for "machines" are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren't enough of those jobs.”

Writing May Enough Jobs Political Values Modern Higher Machines Myth Medical Eras Software Accountants Replacements Technicians Modern Era

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“I am tough but I have a soft side.”

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“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.”

Ifs Wealth Creation Rate Financial Assets Wealth Creation True Wealth

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

Growth Debt Tendencies Inflation Deficit Percentages Accompany Gdp Slow Growth

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“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.”

Force Higher Dollars Sanity Continuing Inflation Treasury Creditors Rationale Depreciation

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“When you're underperforming the index, you go home at night and cry in your beer. It's not fun, but who said this business should be fun. We're too well paid to hang our heads and say boo hoo.”

Should Wells Said Home Night Fun Cry Paid Investing Beer

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

Long Long Time Naked Suits Swimming Tides Bathing Bathing Suits

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“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.”

World Real Values Lows Investment Protection Vampire Investors Decay Inflation Loan Recessions Real Value

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“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.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Running Company

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“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.”

Thinking Knows Want Writing Trying Wells Mean Week Politician Presses Voters Ceo

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“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.”

Should Ideas Particular Investment Meaningless Oblivion Portfolios

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

Persons Important Decision Findings Organization Financial Best Person

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“We are witnessing the death of abundance and the borning of austerity, for what may be a long, long time.”

May Long Long Time Abundance Austerity

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“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.”

Want Trying Order Company Economy Type Higher Percent Safety Objectives Inflation Margins Recessions

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“Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.”

Humans Mean Loses Human Nature Institutions Missions Vulnerability Gross

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“I have a 41-year track record of investing excellence… what do you have?”

Years Records Excellence Investing Track Track Record

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“Whenever I read the newspaper, I say to myself, 'At least my wife loves me.'”

Wife My Wife Newspapers Gross Wives Love

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“Pay per click was just the beginning. The real evolution is pay per action.”

Real Action Pay Evolution Internet Clicks

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“In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well. It seems, perhaps, that the longer and longer you keep at it in this business the more and more time you have to expose your Achilles heel - wherever and whatever that might be.”

Wells Seems Might Doors Bills More Time Investors Questioning Heels Gross Icons Achilles Achilles Heel

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“The market can move for irrational reasons, and you have to be prepared for that, ... you need to make big bets when the odds are in your favor -- not big enough to ruin you, but big enough to make a difference.”

Needs Reason Enough Bigs Moving Differences Prepared Favors Ruins Making A Difference Odds Irrational Be Prepared Gross

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“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.”

Ifs Want Writing Country Growth Too Much Spread Credit Print Investors Currency Equity Recessions Stagnation Austerity Cheques

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“Whether a tops-down or bottoms-up investor in bonds, stocks, or private equity, the standard analysis tends to judge an investor or his firm on the basis of how the bullish or bearish aspects of the cycle were managed.”

Judging Standards Aspect Bases Bottom Firm Analysis Cycles Investors Equity Private Equity Bullish

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“Both from the standpoint of stocks and bonds, an investor wants to go where the growth is.”

Want Growth Investors Standpoint

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“Why is it possible to rescue S&L buccaneers in the early '90s and provide guidance to levered Wall Street investment bankers during the 1998 long-term capital management crisis, yet throw 2 million homeowners to the wolves in 2007?”

Long Term Millions Streets Wall Management Crisis Investment Financial Guidance Long Term Rescue Skeptical Bankers Homeowners Buccaneers

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Born: April 13, 1944
Known for: Financial manager
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