Jim Cramer Quotes

The typical big winner in the Lynch portfolio generally takes three to ten years to play out.

I began to realize that the big money must necessarily be in the big swing.

Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose.

People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers. And that, in turn, is why Wall Street perennially downplays the durable virtues of investing and hypes the gaudy appeal of speculation.

It only takes a handful of big winners to make a lifetime of investing worthwhile.

There is nothing to be embarrassed about being profitable.

Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit.

I make a lot more off the trades and Image than Marvel.

Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.

Sometimes earning awards doesn't matter as much as earning revenue or profit, or having a good response from the audience. No matter how many awards you win, if you can't earn any profit from your movie, if the audience doesn't like it, then it doesn't matter how many awards you get.

I've had such a great track record in making a huge profit when the movies are smaller.

It is easy to make a million pesos. Buy an Argentinian for what he is worth, and sell him for what he thinks he is worth.

I like things with upside. That's how you make money.

I think in the long term, you make money with focusing on the sport.

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

Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.

It's a new year, new year, new money, money!

One metric catches people. We prefer businesses that drown in cash. An example of a different business is construction equipment. You work hard all year and there is your profit sitting in the yard. We avoid businesses like that. We prefer those that can write us a check at the end of the year.

The big money is not in the buying and selling ... but in the waiting.

There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as the sin of avarice.

There is very little difference between speculation and investment. The only difference is basically that investments are successful speculations because if you successfully anticipate the future you make a speculative profit.

Donald Trump has a bunch of people who have been able to find the money they need for projects that they wanted to do and succeed at them and show a profit at the same time, and everybody involved wins.

Donald was one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis. He said, back in 2006, gee, I hope it does collapse because then I can go in and buy some and make some money. Well, it did collapse.

Thousands of people have tried, and the evidence is clear: The more you trade, the less you keep.

It’s waiting that helps you as an investor, and a lot of people just can’t stand to wait. If you didn’t get the deferred-gratification gene, you’ve got to work very hard to overcome that.