Jim Cramer Quotes (47 Quotes)


    The danger that we have right now are people who get the same information as I do and, therefore, think they'll reach the same conclusions that haven't traded as long, don't have bear claws up and down their backs like I do.

    When it was brought to his attention that financial advisers and stockbrokers can be negative about him and his show Mad Money, ... Of course they are, and I'm negative about them.

    There are tons of people who are late to trends by nature and adopt a trend after it's no longer in fashion. They exist in mutual funds. They exist in clothes. They exist in cars. They exist in lifestyles.

    I think that the public is in and the public is in big, and the public is not, I don't think going to pull out because the public knows what I said about 1987.

    The way the credit cards were made in the '80s to be a people's form of capitalism and be able to make it so that you could get a loan that you would have been denied previous, now that's the way stocks are.


    The party line is that stocks historically have outperformed all other investment plans.

    The place had lost its way, the leadership had lost its way and it was a very unfortunate thing.

    You have a class of investors and you have a class of speculators. The speculators historically haven't been big enough to cause the investors to doubt the long-term vision of stock.

    If I can't be entertaining, no one will watch, ... The kind of sector analysis that I do is not only extremely responsible but probably much better than your broker or analyst does, and that would have cost you a fortune.

    I mean that what makes me a professional, but the market itself has been fabulous during this whole period and I've got to give the market credit before I give myself credit.

    I think that stocks have been this tremendous, tremendous equalizer for people in this country. Guys who can't make a lot of money at their jobs have been able to make a lot of money in the stock market.

    If you can't find the next McDonald's, I'll find the next McDonald's. But it's vital to be with people who with looking for 'em, because they do exist. They are created.

    It's the company itself, but most of these mutual fund companies, the guy who runs the company is just a fact totem and the guy who runs the money is the power. But we really don't know who they are.

    The people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do deserve to lose money.

    I mean homes are very easy to build and buy. But I think that the idea of saving for stocks is a hard thing that people in this country have embraced.

    There are companies out there in our country who historically have not been able to beat the Germans and the Japanese, who now beat them routinely.

    It's a high-energy, high-risk, one-man-walking-a-tightrope act every night. In the end, that camera is on me every night and I have to deliver.

    I will stand up for what I believe and for what I have always believed: Every person has a right to be rich in this country and I want to help them get there.

    I invest in funds myself even though I run my own fund for my daughters.

    I think that I could have been take apart if the bear market continued, but I waited three years before I felt the bear market was over and I was right.

    I have never for a minute felt in was my stock picking abilities. I feel that my stock picking abilities aided- I was able to pick out which are the good stocks in the good market, but I have been blessed with a great market.

    It's time to buy the greatest medical stock you've never heard.

    I wouldn't chase this stock in the low teens, as it has already gained more than 150 on the year.

    Well, he's just the same guy who in other aspects of his life would be very late to a trend.

    I mean I'm not smarter than the market, but I can recognize a good tape and a bad tape. I recognize when it's right and when it's wrong and that's what my strength is.

    There's accountability in the mutual fund industry. And they've been tremendous engines of wealth for people and they're going to continue to be so.

    What I'm saying is that there are bargains right now, there are stocks right now that if you're shrewd enough, you will be able to buy them at the opening today and I you'll make money in a year from now.

    I had unbelievable credibility as a hedge fund manager (at Cramer Berkowitz), but who cares If I'm obstreperous, funny, I'm bringing people in, not turning them off. My industry has been operating through mystification and confusion. Fie on us. I'm having a darn good time,

    We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must.

    We typically hear numbers that there are 34 million households that are in stocks in some form. Well, I say that what's occurred is if you have a job in this country, you're in stocks.

    Microsoft was not a mysterious, strange entity. You put your PC on and there's an ad for them.

    I am doing my best to find it. I will find it before the public finds it. I will get out of it before it's too late. The reason I will do that is because that's what I'm paid to do.

    It's a tough moment. This has become a tough market, ... the ones that aren't waiting for oil prices and interest rates to go down.

    I think that there are changes that have occurred in technology that make is that more people can have the same level of information that I have. My advantage is that I'm very good at interpreting the information.

    The mutual fund industry provided the money for Intel and Motorola and Hewlett-Packard to crush the competitors.

    I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.

    And, strangely, this one of the few things in life that the third, the latter, the buy with our eyes closed has actually done better than everybody else.

    I don't think that's changed at all. I think there are a thousand stocks out there that could make you rich, totally independent of what you do for a living.

    Symbol Technologies is probably the single biggest disappointment I've had since I started my show.

    I want to buy them, because historically these have been great engines of enrichment for the middle class, 'historically' meaning now for a good ten years.

    I mean it's the most objective industry in the world. If your numbers stink, you're out. If your numbers are good, you get more money. It's the most Darwinian, it's beautiful, it's brutal, it works.

    The corporate killer downsizing is directly responsive to what the mutual funds have wanted.

    I think I learned that his earnestness didn't diminish his intellectual capacity. I often think politics is a blender that purees everything, but he's not pureed.

    I think you'll do as well as most professionals. Most professionals don't beat the market. Let's not over-rate my industry. But if you have time, you can be in good mutual funds that have good records.

    When I come to work each day, whether as a commentator for TheStreet.com or a host of Mad Money With Jim Cramer, I have only one thought in mind: helping people with their money.

    I believe Google can be bought here. There is a scarcity of companies with high, organic growth in this market, and that is why I expect Google to go up. Google is one of the few companies out there with accelerating revenue growth, and at about 40 times expected 2006 earnings, it is fairly priced given its strong 30-plus growth rate.

    These will be fabulous investments and will make millions of more people rich.


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