Jim Cramer Quotes

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

Because of my own experience with market fluctuation, I recognize the great risks one takes on investments. This converts the Social Security safety net into a risky proposition many cannot afford to take.

Investing is not as tough as being a top-notch bridge player. All it takes is the ability to see things as they really are.

It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.

Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

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.

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.

In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money.

If you were approaching the TARP investments from a pure investment standpoint, then there's no doubt in my mind the taxpayer lost, and probably lost big.

In any business opportunity, you'd be looking, probably, primarily at the risk and return. Some business can be very risky with a low return; what you want is the lowest risk with the biggest return.

We make a series of investments, some will pan out and some won't.

I caught hold of the great bull market in soybeans in 1977. I had no idea what I was doing, incidentally.

I think at a certain level compared - as was pointed out earlier, compared to what is happening in Europe, the United States still gets the safe-haven money. But underlying that, the United States is not the safe haven but perhaps the most dangerous place of all.

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.

There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses.

Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent.

Personally, I have invested in around ten U.S. companies and will continue to do so. That doesn't give me a strong experience in the American market. But I have an understanding of the public.

When the man who ought to want a stock doesn't want it, why should I want it?

There is enourmous pressure in the investment business to deliver good news. Good news sells better ….To go out there in a bubble and talk about overpriced markets is an invitation to get fired.

… a pin lies in wait for every bubble. And when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons..

Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why play on a level field?

My investment advice is rooted in my understanding of economics.

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

If you live in the digital economy, you have to be careful to have your investment thesis squarely bolted into your reality.

Eliminate emotion from your investment program.