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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You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses.

Bill Gross

I am obsessed with delivering value to investors and winning the game from a personal standpoint.

Bill Gross

Favouring employment versus the financial markets is a decent policy; certainly not beneficial for the currency or the gilt market, but beneficial for the people.

Bill Gross

Bonds as an asset class will always be needed, and not just by insurance companies and pension funds but by aging boomers.

Bill Gross

The U.K. and almost all of Europe have erred in terms of believing that austerity, fiscal austerity in the short term, is the way to produce real growth. It is not. You've got to spend money.

Bill Gross

When does money run out of time? The countdown begins when investable assets pose too much risk for too little return; when lenders desert credit markets for other alternatives such as cash or real assets.

Bill Gross

If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money.

Bill Gross

Obama/Romney, Romney/Obama - the most important election of our lifetime? Fact is they're all the same - bought and paid for with the same money. Ours is a country of the SuperPAC, by the SuperPAC, and for the SuperPAC.

Bill Gross

Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders.

Bill Gross

My clients don't pay me to feel sorry; they pay me to bring them money. I am tough, but I have a soft side.

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Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.

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Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for 'machines' are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth ...

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Author Bio

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