'People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between'
Source: MarketWatch
'My early blackjack career taught me several things. The first is that if you apply yourself with a lot of hard work and mathematical prowess you can beat the system.'
Source: The Guardian
'Finding the best person or the best organization to invest your money is one of the most important financial decisions you'll ever make'
Source: Financial Express
'Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission'
Source: CNN Money
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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'
Source: Harvard Business Review
'You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses'
'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'
Source: CNBC
'Do you really like a particular stock? Put 10% or so of your portfolio on it; make the idea count. Good ideas should not be diversified away into meaningless oblivion'
Source: The Motley Fool
'We are witnessing the death of abundance and the borning of austerity, for what may be a long, long time.'
Gross wrote those words in 2012 at the end of a monthly letter for PIMCO.
Source: Business Insider
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'I'm an Asperger, and Aspergers can compartmentalize. They can operate in different universes without the other universes affecting them as much.'
Source: MarketWatch
'Stocks historically return more than almost all other alternative investments, but only when priced right when the race begins'
Source: The Street
'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'
'I am obsessed with delivering value to investors and winning the game from a personal standpoint'
Source: Business Insider
'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'
Source: CNBC