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16 brilliant quotes from Bill Gross, the legendary 'Bond King' who retired earlier this year

16 brilliant quotes from Bill Gross, the legendary 'Bond King' who retired earlier this year

'People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between'

'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

'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'

Source: Bloomberg

'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

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

Source: Reuters

'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

'The market can move for irrational reasons, and you have to be prepared for that'

Source: CNN Money

'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'

Source: QFINANCE: The Ultimate Resource, 4th edition

'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

16 brilliant quotes from Bill Gross, the legendary 'Bond King' who retired earlier this year

'People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between'

'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.'

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

'Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission'

'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'

'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'

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

'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'

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

'The market can move for irrational reasons, and you have to be prepared for that'

'I'm an Asperger, and Aspergers can compartmentalize. They can operate in different universes without the other universes affecting them as much.'

'Stocks historically return more than almost all other alternative investments, but only when priced right when the race begins'

'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'

'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'

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