Jim Cramer Quotes

I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock.

Some, but much of my money is tied up in Playboy stock.

Americans no longer look to government for economic security; rather, they look to their portfolios.

In essence, the stock market represents three separate categories of business.They are, adjusted for inflation, those with shrinking intrinsic value, those with approximately stable intrinsic value, and those with steadily growing intrinsic value.

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).

Money you won't need to use for at least seven years is money for investing. The goal here is to have your account grow over time to help you finance a distant goal, such as building a retirement fund. Since your goal is in the future, money for investing belongs in stocks.

Cash - in savings accounts, short-term CDs or money market deposits - is great for an emergency fund. But to fulfill a long-term investment goal like funding your retirement, consider buying stocks. The more distant your financial target, the longer inflation will gnaw at the purchasing power of your money.

Anyone with a pension or retirement is an investor in the stock market.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.

I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership.

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.

Large-caps were safe in 1996, '97, '98. Everybody was buying index funds and Nifty Fifty funds. As long as money was pouring in, it was great.

I'm a stockholder. I own a lot of stocks.

The government can’t guarantee that you should earn profit from your investments.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate [on the Stock Market]: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

There's no such thing as wealth without risk.

Stocks actually can be a very good hedge against inflation, and short of hyperinflation, stocks will have the ability to increase their dividends to match the rise in prices.

When people discover they are no good at baseball or hockey, they put away their bats and their skates and they take up amateur golf or stamp collecting or gardening. But when people discover they are no good at picking stocks, they are likely to continue to do it anyway.

Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies.

Equity mutual funds are the perfect solution for people who want to own stocks without doing their own research.

Gentlemen who prefer bonds don't know what they're missing.

When you are an entrepreneur, you have founded your own firm, it is so easy to find that you exist - you are the main shareholder of your company; it is very easy to look at the stock market position of your company to know how rich you are.

I own every share of my company, and I don't want to sell any of it.