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1. "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

2. "Both from the standpoint of stocks and bonds, an investor wants to go where the growth is." ~ Bill Gross

3. "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

4. "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

5. "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

6. "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

7. "Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders." ~ Bill Gross

8. "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

9. "Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco." ~ Bill Gross

10. "I am tough but I have a soft side." ~ Bill Gross

11. "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

12. "In terms of economic growth, PIMCO originated the famous phrase the 'new normal.'" ~ Bill Gross

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

14. "Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP." ~ Bill Gross

15. "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 of the modern era. There aren't enough of those jobs." ~ Bill Gross

16. "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

17. "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

18. "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

19. "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

20. "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

21. "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

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