Whatever money you may need for the next five years, please take it out of the stock market right now, this week.
Jim CramerI 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.
Jim CramerI 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.
Jim CramerI may play a total madman on TV, but I'm really just a very unbalanced guy at home. However, when it comes to stocks, I believe in being rigorous and methodical, not crazy. There's no madness to my method.
Jim CramerBut be very, very careful, because when you're playing with momentum, you're playing with fire.
Jim CramerA 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.
Jim CramerI 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.
Jim CramerThey 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.
Jim CramerWhen 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.
Jim CramerI 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.
Jim CramerIt'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.
Jim CramerIf 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.
Jim CramerI 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.
Jim CramerThe people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do, deserve to lose money.
Jim CramerI 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.
Jim CramerPicking 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.
Jim CramerFunny, 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.
Jim CramerI 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.
Jim CramerThere 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.
Jim CramerThe mutual fund industry provided the money for Intel and Motorola and Hewlett-Packard to crush the competitors.
Jim CramerMicrosoft was not a mysterious, strange entity. You put your PC on and there's an ad for them.
Jim CramerRemember, 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.
Jim CramerI 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.
Jim CramerWell, he's just the same guy who in other aspects of his life would be very late to a trend.
Jim CramerAs 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.
Jim CramerI 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.
Jim CramerThe 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.
Jim CramerThe corporate killer downsizing is directly responsive to what the mutual funds have wanted.
Jim CramerI 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.
Jim CramerAnd, 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.
Jim CramerYou 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.
Jim CramerAfter 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.
Jim CramerI'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.
Jim CramerWe 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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