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

Bill Gross

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.
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Doors Icons might Question
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.
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Mean Thinking Writing
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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Decision Important Organization
You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses.
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Butterflies Butterfly Chasing Rose
Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders.
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Equity Expenses Return
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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Brilliant Fidelity Fund Mutual
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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Long Naked Swimming
People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between.
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Lying People Reality
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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Analysis Aspect Judging
I have a 41-year track record of investing excellence… what do you have?
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Excellence Track Years
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?
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Bankers Capital Long Management Wall
Pay per click was just the beginning. The real evolution is pay per action.
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Action Click Pay Real
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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Action Believe Inventor Thinking
Even if a country can print its own currency and write its own cheques.
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Country Currency Even Out Print
We are witnessing the death of abundance and the borning of austerity, for what may be a long, long time.
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Austerity Long Many
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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Beer Fun Home

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