Jim Cramer Quotes

I'm quite bullish. We're coming up on year 15 of a flat stock market. Historically that's a pretty good sign. So I'm not a hedge-fund manager but if I was I think I'd be feeling pretty good.

There is only one side of the market and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side.

Do not buy the hype from Wall St. and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better.

I think the value of venues like CNBC is that they give investors an opportunity to reevaluate the situation minute by minute, but maybe we don't need to follow the market so closely.

People often panic when the markets go down and sell off their stocks - but then they aren't in the game when the markets are doing well.

If there's a recession, I'd buy stocks. That's when you make money: when markets are spooked.

Predicting the market is always tough.

If you go back to 2001, the market had two violent short covering rallies then, although I know the market didn't officially get going until March 2003.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

I don’t know why the Stock Market does what it does.

There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.

People with 401(k)s need to be very conservative. Picking bottoms should be for insiders and traders.

It's in the nature of stock markets to go way down from time to time. There's no system to avoid bad markets. You can't do it unless you try to time the market, which is a seriously dumb thing to do. Conservative investing with steady savings without expecting miracles is the way to go.

Television series are like the stock market. There's room for bears and bulls but no room for pigs.

Cheer the bull, or cheer the bear; cheer both, and you will be trampled and eaten.

You could lose hundreds or thousands one day on paper and gain it all back the next, and it has literally no effect on your immediate future, provided the money you have in the market is money you're investing for the long haul (meaning at least three to five years).

If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail.

I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.

We don't think much about the up and down of the public market.

The trend of the market is up, not down. Shorting stocks puts you against that trend and thus makes it more difficult to make money.

The upward move at the beginning of a bull market is almost always huge compared with the vacillations late in the bear market. If you try to pick a bottom, you will miss a good part of the action.

There is no training, classroom or otherwise, that can prepare for trading the last third of a move, whether it's the end of a bull market or the end of a bear market.

My advice to the average investor in 1988 is to be patient and think long-term. It will take 18 months for confidence to get better and, in the meantime, this is absolutely no place for short-term money.

I had a few stocks, but stocks took a dive. I never sell my stocks.

Fundamentals make the market.