A purchase of Treasuries and a sale of Bunds allows for not only a potential capital gain if the spread narrows, but a yield pickup while the Rip Van Winkle investor potentially waits for a probable outcome. Bill Gross More Quotes by Bill Gross More Quotes From Bill Gross The market can move for irrational reasons, and you have to be prepared for that, ... you need to make big bets when the odds are in your favor -- not big enough to ruin you, but big enough to make a difference. Bill Gross differencesoddsmoving 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. Bill Gross vampiredecayreal Finding the best person or the best organization to invest your money is one of the most important financial decisions you'll ever make. Bill Gross importantorganizationdecision 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. Bill Gross portfoliosoblivionideas With all this consumer debt, business debt, government debt, smaller movements in interest rates have a magnified effect. a small movement can tip the boat. Bill Gross debtmovementgovernment We are witnessing the death of abundance and the borning of austerity, for what may be a long, long time. Bill Gross austeritymaylong Bonds despite their ridiculous yields will not easily be threatened with a new bear market. Bill Gross ridiculousyieldbears You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses. Bill Gross chasing-butterfliesbutterflyrose Whenever I read the newspaper, I say to myself, 'At least my wife loves me.' Bill Gross newspaperswives-lovewife I have a 41-year track record of investing excellence… what do you have? Bill Gross trackexcellenceyears Both from the standpoint of stocks and bonds, an investor wants to go where the growth is. Bill Gross standpointgrowthwant Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco. Bill Gross institutionshuman-naturemean 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 mutual-fundfidelitybrilliant 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 more time you have to expose your Achilles heel - wherever and whatever that might be. Bill Gross iconsdoorsmight When the tide goes out, you get to see who's swimming naked. PIMCO has had its bathing suit on for a long time Bill Gross nakedswimminglong People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between. Bill Gross lyingrealitypeople Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders. Bill Gross equityexpensesreturn Dollar depreciation leads to higher inflation and ultimately forces foreign creditors to question their rationale and indeed their sanity for continuing purchases of U.S. Treasuries. Bill Gross creditorssanitydollars 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 growthwritingcountry Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP. Bill Gross debtgdpgrowth
