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.
BILL GROSSDo 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.
More Bill Gross Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I would admit Im an introvert. I dont know why introverts have to apologize.
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I have a 41-year track record of investing excellence… what do you have?
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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.
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Pay per click was just the beginning. The real evolution is pay per action.
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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.
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Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.
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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
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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.
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Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for “machines” are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs.
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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.
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Whenever I read the newspaper, I say to myself, ‘At least my wife loves me.’
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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.
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