Jim Cramer Quotes

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.

Every once in a while, the market does something so stupid it takes your breath away

But be very, very careful, because when you're playing with momentum, you're playing with fire.

Remember, I am neither a bear nor a bull, I am an agnostic opportunist. I want to make money short- and long-term. I want to find good situations and exploit them.

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.

I wish it grew on trees, but it takes hard work to make money.

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.

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.

Oligopoly, plutocracy, kleptocracy: All things that are good for a shareholder.

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.

Whatever money you may need for the next five years, please take it out of the stock market right now, this week.

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.

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.

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.

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

I've lost tremendous amounts of money in various markets and I think that that's something that makes you better at my job, not worse.

A good investor in this new world knows to always expect the unexpected.

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

Funny, but after trading for more than 15 years, I still am capable of forgetting a cardinal rule: The paper you own, in the end, will be intertwined with the fate of the 30-year bond.

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.

Success through the eyes of one once defeated, is true VICTORY.

A lot of times when I was short, I would create a level of activity beforehand that would drive the futures. . . . It's a fun game.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Picking the right stocks is one of the hardest parts of investing, and every night on Mad Money, I try to take some of that burden off your shoulders.

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

On days like today you realize that you just can't keep these hypergrowth stocks down.

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

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

I just can't stop myself; I'm addicted to making you money. I should be spending all day in a country club or never getting out of my pajamas like Hugh Hefner.

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

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.

I am not a hesitant bull, I'm a Pamplona bull.

Don't move your money from Bear. That's just being silly. Don't be silly.

This is a business, the direct selling, that bizarrely works best when times are bad.

They don't take eyeballs at the bank. Those who value stocks by eyeballs should go be ophthalmologists, not stock analysts. There is no cyberworld where reach trumps profits.

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

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.

When people ask me how I was able to make so much money in the market during a 20-year period, I would always say I did it off the misunderstandings of others.

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