Jim Cramer Financial Quotes

Value

2007-10-08T06:15:00.001-07:00

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.

Tape

2007-10-08T06:12:00.000-07:00

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.

Market Credit

2007-10-08T06:10:00.000-07:00

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.

Exploit

2007-10-08T06:09:00.000-07:00

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.

Historically

2007-10-08T06:08:00.000-07:00

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.

Performance

2007-10-08T06:07:00.000-07:00

The difference between performance and outperformance often comes down not to what you buy, but how you buy it.

Compound

2007-10-08T06:06:00.000-07:00

The compound nature of the dividends and capital appreciation of Merck for the last 25 years has just been far better than what Warren Buffet has done.

Beat The Market

2007-10-08T06:04:00.000-07:00

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.

Late To Trend

2007-10-08T06:03:00.002-07:00

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.

Credit

2007-10-08T06:03:00.001-07:00

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.

Interpreting

2007-10-08T06:01:00.000-07:00

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.

Fortune

2007-10-06T20:59:00.000-07:00

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