Jim Cramer Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The mutual fund industry provided the money for Intel and Motorola and Hewlett-Packard to crush the competitors.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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As long as you enjoy investing, you'll be willing to do the homework and stay in the game. That's why I try to make the show so entertaining, because if you aren't interested, you'll either miss the opportunity to make money in the market or not pay enough attention and end up losing your shirt.
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The people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do, deserve to lose money.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Success through the eyes of one once defeated, is true VICTORY.
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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.
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The corporate killer downsizing is directly responsive to what the mutual funds have wanted.
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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.
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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.
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But be very, very careful, because when you're playing with momentum, you're playing with fire.
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After a lifetime of picking stocks, I have to admit that Bogle's arguments in favor of the index fund have me thinking of joining him rather than trying to beat him. Bogle's wisdom and common sense are indispensable... for anyone trying to figure out how to invest in this crazy stock market.
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Microsoft was not a mysterious, strange entity. You put your PC on and there's an ad for them.
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A good investor in this new world knows to always expect the unexpected.
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I am not a hesitant bull, I'm a Pamplona bull.
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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.
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Whatever money you may need for the next five years, please take it out of the stock market right now, this week.
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These will be fabulous investments and will make millions of more people rich.
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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.
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This is a business, the direct selling, that bizarrely works best when times are bad.
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