Jim Cramer Quotes

Speculative stock movements are carried too far in both directions, frequently in the general market and at all times in at least some of the individual issues.

The sillier the market's behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor.

Economists who adhere to rational-expectations models of the world will never admit it, but a lot of what happens in markets is driven by pure stupidity - or, rather, inattention, misinformation about fundamentals, and an exaggerated focus on currently circulating stories.

The stock market resembles a huge laundry in which institutions take in large blocks of each others washing ... without rhyme or reason.

Remember that the stock market is manic-depressive.

The market, as we're all painfully aware in the aftermath of the banking crisis, can be an idiot. It has no perception of right or wrong, or even sensible or insane. It sees profit.

The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.

When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed.

The bubble, as investing phenomenon, has been well studied ever since the 17th-century tulip bulb frenzy. Its counterpart in bear markets is not well understood.

I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them?

The market is incredibly inefficient and capable on rare occasions of being utterly dysfunctional. And people have a really hard time getting their brain around that fact. They want to believe that it's approximately efficient almost all the time, and it simply isn't true.

The one thing about markets is that they do not give any advance notice. If they did, they would be arbitraged away.

I can never predict what the markets will do. Sometimes it does the exact opposite of what I would have expected.

Markets shouldn't be moving in a straight line.

Every now and then, markets behave like schoolchildren. They overreact, they run around like crazy.

Nothing ever surprises me about the market.

As I have said before, the daily machinations of the stock market are like a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient.

Ridiculous as our market volatility might seem to an intelligent Martian, it is our reality and everyone loves to trot out the 'quote' attributed to Keynes (but never documented): 'The market can stay irrational longer than the investor can stay solvent.' For us agents, he might better have said 'The market can stay irrational longer than the client can stay patient.'

One doesn't like instabilities in markets; they may be damaging, but probably not fatal, as the October '87 crash showed. It turned out to be essentially inconsequential. So if that's true, I'm not very worried about the welfare of those who are investing any more than I am about the welfare of those who go into casinos.

Long-term investing has gotten so popular, it's easier to admit you're a crack addict than to admit you're a short-term investor.

The good news is, the stock market is closed and it can't hurt us again until tomorrow.

Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

The market is always making mountains out of molehills and exaggerating ordinary vicissitudes into major setbacks.