Jim Cramer Quotes

It's the fastest who get paid and it's the fastest who get laid.

The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.

Today the world is a big jungle.

People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good.

Westminster is a jungle - and the hunter can always smell fear on its prey.

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

My femininity is always something I've tried to preserve in this dog-eat-dog world.

Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.

Particularly if you're a good engineer, there's a lot of ways you can make money, but to actually have an impact on the world is rare, and when you find an opportunity for that, it's very special.

If money titles meant anything, I'd play more tournaments. The only thing that means a lot to me is winning. If I have more wins than anybody else and win more majors than anybody else in the same year, then it's been a good year.

We are living in a very tough neighborhood where there is no mercy for the weak.

Modern competition is often described as a fight of all against all.

It's a winner-take-all world.

In the business arena, the standard rules of morality don't apply. What we're really looking for is efficiency. It doesn't do anyone any good to be nice to the weak. In a certain sense, competition is inefficient.

For some people, success is a zero sum game. They think that if they push other people out of the way, fewer people can compete with them. That's one way of seeing the world. It's dog eat dog. It's, sadly, always going to be there.

I see life and the world simply as an arena for competition. That's just what people do, and there are always going to be winners and losers.

I was one of those guys that really had to fight to make it in this league. Early on, I really had to do whatever it took, whether it be fight, rough people up, to make the team. I looked at it as it's either me or them - and it was going to be me.

It's a dog-eat-dog world and in a man's world, too. It's just a fight, every single week, this job.

In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.

I come from a world where accountability and accomplishments matter, and where titles and rhetoric take a back seat to results.

Let's set the existence-of-God issue aside for a later volume, and just stipulate that in some way, self-replicating organisms came into existence on this planet and immediately began trying to get rid of each other, either by spamming their environments with rough copies of themselves, or by more direct means which hardly need to be belabored. Most of them failed, and their genetic legacy was erased from the universe forever, but a few found some way to survive and to propagate.

That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change.

In fighting, in evolution, in life, efficiency is the key.

Life was not fair. If you wanted something you had to take it. Before someone else took it from you. Neatly dissected down to its essence, life was one long series of lily pad hoppings. The quick and the resourceful were able to adapt and survive; all others were simply crushed as a more nimble creature landed on the lily pad they had occupied for too long.

Competitive spirit is still at a premium. The more you win, the better you play, the more money you make, so they all have that in mind.