Quotes by Bill Gross

About Bill Gross:

William Hunt "Bill" Gross is an American financial manager and author. He co-founded Pacific Investment Management (PIMCO). Gross also ran PIMCO's $270.0 billion Total Return Fund (PTTRX). Gross left Pimco to join Janus on September 26, 2014.
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I always thought of myself as being part of a family and sharing and, yes, leading, but not forcing people to do anything.

Bill Gross

The real boss in the family is my wife. She didn't want me hanging around the house all day and said, 'You don't want to retire; you'll regret it.' So I listened to her.

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. It seems, perhaps, that the longer and longer you keep at it in this business the more and...

Bill Gross

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

Bill Gross

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.

Bill Gross

In terms of economic growth, PIMCO originated the famous phrase the 'new normal.'

Bill Gross

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.

Bill Gross

Americans now know that housing prices can go down and they can go down by 10, 20, 30, and in some cases, 40 or 50 percent. We know they can go down. But five years ago, we thought they could only go up.

Bill Gross

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.

Bill Gross

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

Bill Gross

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

Bill Gross

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

Bill Gross

I am tough but I have a soft side.

Bill Gross

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.

Bill Gross

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.

Bill Gross

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

Bill Gross

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

Bill Gross

It's going to be difficult to stimulate the real economy in the U.S. at a faster rate than 2 percent and perhaps even less if we have that fiscal cliff in December or January 2013.

Bill Gross

What the Obama administration's policies have really been oriented towards have always been towards providing benefits continuing consumption. What this country needs really is a policy which stresses investments.

Bill Gross

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

Bill Gross

Author Bio

  • NameBill Gross
  • DescriptionAmerican finance and investment writer
  • BornApril 13, 1944
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionEntrepreneur; Financier