Cramer Quotes & Sayings

Microsoft was not a mysterious, strange entity. You put your PC on and there's an ad for them. — Jim Cramer

Here's where I'm different from a senator. We pass continuing resolutions. We pass appropriations bills. — Kevin Cramer

It's like a drug, the feeling you could make a difference ... — Richard Ben Cramer

If you can't find the next McDonald's, I'll find the next McDonald's. But it's vital to be with people who with looking for 'em, because they do exist. They are created. — Jim Cramer

Calvin had been frozen for almost 300 years. After that, he had been quarantined to a laboratory for several days, fed kitten, insulted by a clone, befriended by a mass murderer, operated on by a psychopath, bounced around by a moon rover, and forced into his own feet by an airplane. He felt that it was all worth it just to experience this one moment. — Brian Cramer

The plants in the garden - the aloes, the almond tree, the rose tree and the iris - were afraid of her. The flowers withered under her breath and the touch of her hand was leprous for the leaves. The plants whose growth is belief, whose breathing is hope, whose immobility is confidence and whose calyx is prayer, the plants who kept watch into the night, hated this women with the secret force of stars. — Hendrik Cramer

No matter what other nations may say about the United States, immigration is still the sincerest form of flattery. — Clayton Cramer

All there was to it, he was in a panic. He was scared stiff that any minute a fact might come bouncing in that would force him to send me down to Cramer bearing gifts, and there was practically nothing on earth he wouldn't rather do, even eating ice cream with cantaloupe or horseradish on oysters. — Rex Stout

I am doing my best to find it. I will find it before the public finds it. I will get out of it before it's too late. The reason I will do that is because that's what I'm paid to do. — Jim Cramer

Well, he's just the same guy who in other aspects of his life would be very late to a trend. — Jim Cramer

I have never for a minute felt in was my stock picking abilities. I feel that my stock picking abilities aided- I was able to pick out which are the good stocks in the good market, but I have been blessed with a great market. — Jim Cramer

couldn't, either. They didn't know this — W. Dale Cramer

Historically, it's been wrong to underestimate the Chinese Communist Party's ability to keep growth going in order ... — Jim Cramer

My children range in age from 5 to 31. We adopted the 5-year-old, but people are often impressed with my wife before knowing that. — Kevin Cramer

You have a class of investors and you have a class of speculators. The speculators historically haven't been big enough to cause the investors to doubt the long-term vision of stock. — Jim Cramer

The small ember of warmth in Tarpa's soul that was struggling to become a fire was suddenly and painfully dashed out of existence by the joyful tears of the reunited couple, leaving only a tiny pile of soggy ash behind. — Brian Cramer

(Doc) Cramer told me I was hitting too much off the front foot and that I wasn't using the right kind of bat. I had been using a long, skinny stick and Cramer got me a thicker one. — Nellie Fox

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. — Jim Cramer

I've lost tremendous amounts of money in various markets and I think that that's something that makes you better at my job, not worse. — Jim Cramer

If you have ever been so upset by something that you drank yourself unconscious only to wake up some time later in an unfamiliar place with only a bad headache and a case of the spins to keep you company, then you have a small idea of the kind of trauma that Bianca experienced when she awoke in Bobcorp3. You also may have a drinking problem. — Brian Cramer

I'm out there to clean the plate. Once they've read what I've written on a subject, I want them to think, 'That's it!' I think the highest aspiration people in our trade can have is that once they've written a story, nobody will ever try it again. — Richard Ben Cramer

I will stand up for what I believe and for what I have always believed: Every person has a right to be rich in this country and I want to help them get there. — Jim Cramer

It's important to have fun. Survival is more than making sure we have enough food and water. — Scott Cramer

Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer] — Michael Lewis

In general, I start with an idea and a general gist of how I want the story to end, and I let the characters write through me. Research along the way informs my characters of where they must go and what they must do when they get there. Fate and Chance have roles, too, pushing the characters out of their comfort zone and into circumstances where they must either grow, or die. Well. Grow or get really uncomfortable. (My stories thus far are not THAT heavy.) — Kristi Cramer

There are tons of people who are late to trends by nature and adopt a trend after it's no longer in fashion. They exist in mutual funds. They exist in clothes. They exist in cars. They exist in lifestyles. — Jim Cramer

I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy. — Jim Cramer

The more trust we place in the Lord and his promises, the greater will be our victory over the attacks of Satan, while the less we know and trust his promises, the more vulnerable we will be. — Steven A. Cramer

They don't take eyeballs at the bank. Those who value stocks by eyeballs should go be ophthalmologists, not stock analysts. There is no cyberworld where reach trumps profits. — Jim Cramer

I mean it's the most objective industry in the world. If your numbers stink, you're out. If your numbers are good, you get more money. It's the most Darwinian, it's beautiful, it's brutal, it works. — Jim Cramer

I have to be honest: I don't get many, if any - I don't know that I've ever received a phone call in my office from somebody that says they've been discriminated against based on their sexual orientation. — Kevin Cramer

I may play a total madman on TV, but I'm really just a very unbalanced guy at home. However, when it comes to stocks, I believe in being rigorous and methodical, not crazy. There's no madness to my method. — Jim Cramer

I think that stocks have been this tremendous, tremendous equalizer for people in this country. Guys who can't make a lot of money at their jobs have been able to make a lot of money in the stock market. — Jim Cramer

As long as you enjoy investing, you'll be willing to do the homework and stay in the game. That's why I try to make the show so entertaining, because if you aren't interested, you'll either miss the opportunity to make money in the market or not pay enough attention and end up losing your shirt. — Jim Cramer

What does your anxiety do? It does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but it empties today of its strength. It does not make you escape the evil; it makes you unfit to cope with it if it comes. — Raymond L. Cramer

Wolfe grunted. "That's admirably specious, but drop it. I give you my word that I haven't the faintest notion of who killed Ellen Tenzer." Cramer eyed him. "Your word?" "Yes, sir. — Rex Stout

Much to their annoyance, Calvin refused to answer any of their questions. He remained on the ground, silently bleeding at them. — Brian Cramer

We typically hear numbers that there are 34 million households that are in stocks in some form. Well, I say that what's occurred is if you have a job in this country, you're in stocks. — Jim Cramer

A good investor in this new world knows to always expect the unexpected. — Jim Cramer

I mean that what makes me a professional, but the market itself has been fabulous during this whole period and I've got to give the market credit before I give myself credit. — Jim Cramer

Sometimes, we find ourselves as conservatives being angry when we should be joyful, finding ourselves being negative when we should be positive, because we have a positive message to send ... We ought to be the most compassionate people in the world. — Kevin Cramer

Remember, I am neither a bear nor a bull, I am an agnostic opportunist. I want to make money short- and long-term. I want to find good situations and exploit them. — Jim Cramer

I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether it's being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry. — Kevin Cramer

I am a joyful conservative, unafraid to articulate big ideas with an optimistic smile. — Kevin Cramer

But be very, very careful, because when you're playing with momentum, you're playing with fire. — Jim Cramer

It's the company itself, but most of these mutual fund companies, the guy who runs the company is just a fact totem and the guy who runs the money is the power. But we really don't know who they are. — Jim Cramer

Alinsky's 1971 book, 'Rules for Radicals,' is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to 'Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.' That's what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer. — Karl Rove

Abandon all hopes of utopia - there are people involved. — Clayton Cramer

This is a business, the direct selling, that bizarrely works best when times are bad. — Jim Cramer

I think that the public is in and the public is in big, and the public is not, I don't think going to pull out because the public knows what I said about 1987. — Jim Cramer

in November was dismal. It was a time of short gray days and long — Sharon Cramer

We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must. — Jim Cramer

On days like today you realize that you just can't keep these hypergrowth stocks down. — Jim Cramer

I think that I could have been take apart if the bear market continued, but I waited three years before I felt the bear market was over and I was right. — Jim Cramer

Not all of Anthony's officers, however, were eager or even willing to join Chivington's well-planned massacre. Captain Silas Soule, Lieutenant Joseph Cramer, and Lieutenant James Connor protested that an attack on Black Kettle's peaceful camp would violate the pledge of safety given the Indians by both Wynkoop and Anthony, "that it would be murder in every sense of the word," and any officer participating would dishonor the uniform of the Army. — Dee Brown

Haikus are quite hard
You always have to count them
...Chunky applesauce? — Benny Cramer

What I'm saying is that there are bargains right now, there are stocks right now that if you're shrewd enough, you will be able to buy them at the opening today and I you'll make money in a year from now. — Jim Cramer

The party line is that stocks historically have outperformed all other investment plans. — Jim Cramer

My definition of social justice: those who refuse to work deserve to go hungry. — Clayton Cramer

A lot of times when I was short, I would create a level of activity beforehand that would drive the futures ... It's a fun game, — Jim Cramer

And, strangely, this one of the few things in life that the third, the latter, the buy with our eyes closed has actually done better than everybody else. — Jim Cramer

I mean I'm not smarter than the market, but I can recognize a good tape and a bad tape. I recognize when it's right and when it's wrong and that's what my strength is. — Jim Cramer

Whatever money you may need for the next five years, please take it out of the stock market right now, this week. — Jim Cramer

Give a man a fish, he eats for a day; teach a man to shop for fish at Whole Foods, he'll be broke within the year. — James J. Cramer

There's accountability in the mutual fund industry. And they've been tremendous engines of wealth for people and they're going to continue to be so. — Jim Cramer

I wish it grew on trees, but it takes hard work to make money. — Jim Cramer

I have played Blair Cramer for 20 years, I feel a personal investment in the success of 'One Life to Live.' I love the show, I'm a fan of the characters, and I have invested in the journey these fictional characters have traveled. — Kassie DePaiva

In February 2000, hedge-fund manager James J. Cramer proclaimed that Internet-related companies "are the only ones worth owning right now." These "winners of the new world," as he called them, "are the only ones that are going higher consistently in good days and bad. — Benjamin Graham

I think that there are changes that have occurred in technology that make is that more people can have the same level of information that I have. My advantage is that I'm very good at interpreting the information. — Jim Cramer

I invest in funds myself even though I run my own fund for my daughters. — Jim Cramer

The corporate killer downsizing is directly responsive to what the mutual funds have wanted. — Jim Cramer

I am not a hesitant bull, I'm a Pamplona bull. — Jim Cramer

The mutual fund industry provided the money for Intel and Motorola and Hewlett-Packard to crush the competitors. — Jim Cramer

Picking the right stocks is one of the hardest parts of investing, and every night on Mad Money, I try to take some of that burden off your shoulders. — Jim Cramer

If you're a person of faith that is conservative, that's pro-life, as I am, that believes strongly in traditional family values, as I do ... then how we talk about them matters. — Kevin Cramer

Love is like a Rubix Cube, there are countless numbers of wrong twists and turns, but when you get it right, it looks perfect no matter what way you look at it. — Brian Cramer

You're damn right I would." Cramer took a step toward the door, remembered his hat, reached across the red leather chair to get it, and marched out. I went to the hall to see that he was on the outside when he shut the door. When I stepped back in, Wolfe spoke. "No mention of anonymous letters. A stratagem? — Rex Stout

In addition, when they talked as if city people lived by different values, they were not emphasizing abortion, or gay marriage, or the things that are typically pointed to as the cultural issues that divide lower-income whites from the Democratic Party. Instead, the values they talked about were intertwined with economic concerns. — Katherine J. Cramer

Why did people think military relationships were romantic? If anything, they were more work than most relationships. — Tracey Cramer-Kelly

I just can't stop myself; I'm addicted to making you money. I should be spending all day in a country club or never getting out of my pajamas like Hugh Hefner. — Jim Cramer

Don't move your money from Bear! That's just being silly! Don't be silly! — Jim Cramer

The way the credit cards were made in the '80s to be a people's form of capitalism and be able to make it so that you could get a loan that you would have been denied previous, now that's the way stocks are. — Jim Cramer

One of the messages I presented to the coal industry was, "If you want to have major transmission built, start encouraging wind development." That's because the cultural value and acceptance of wind energy provides an opportunity to build transmission lines that are not as desirable with traditional forms of generation. — Kevin Cramer

After a lifetime of picking stocks, I have to admit that Bogle's arguments in favor of the index fund have me thinking of joining him rather than trying to beat him. Bogle's wisdom and common sense are indispensable ... for anyone trying to figure out how to invest in this crazy stock market. — Jim Cramer

These will be fabulous investments and will make millions of more people rich. — Jim Cramer

Success through the eyes of one once defeated, is true VICTORY. — Jim Cramer

Every once in a while, the market does something so stupid it takes your breath away — Jim Cramer

We need to graduate from the ridiculous notion that greed is some kind of elixir for capitalism - it's the downfall of capitalism. Self-interest, maybe, but self-interest run amok does not serve anyone. The core value of conscious capitalism is enlightened self-interest. As Jim Cramer on CNBC says, "Bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered." — Patricia Aburdene

But Mr. Cramer,." Wolfe protested, "is it my fault if destiny likes this address? — Rex Stout

I think you'll do as well as most professionals. Most professionals don't beat the market. Let's not over-rate my industry. But if you have time, you can be in good mutual funds that have good records. — Jim Cramer

The danger that we have right now are people who get the same information as I do and, therefore, think they'll reach the same conclusions that haven't traded as long, don't have bear claws up and down their backs like I do. — Jim Cramer

I learned to play piano in a rock n' roll context or band context from country records - you know, Floyd Cramer - and from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Stax. And none of those are keyboard records. — Benmont Tench

Jim Cramer is a very smart man. I watch his show. I just do not follow his advice. — Robert Kiyosaki

The people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do deserve to lose money. — Jim Cramer

You have interrupted me four times, Mr. Cramer. My tolerance is not infinite. You would say, of course, that the message would not be published, and in good faith, but your good faith isn't enough. No doubt Mrs. Nesbitt was assured that her name wouldn't become known, but it did. So I reserve the message. I was about to say, it wouldn't help you to find your murderer. Except for that one immaterial detail, you know all that I know, now that you have reached my client. As for what Mrs. Valdon hired me to do, that's manifest. I engaged to find the mother of the baby. They have been at that, and that alone, for more than three weeks - Mr. Goodwin, Mr. Panzer, Mr. Durkin, and Mr. Cather. You ask if I'm blocked. I am. I'm at my wit's end. — Rex Stout

Funny, but after trading for more than 15 years, I still am capable of forgetting a cardinal rule: The paper you own, in the end, will be intertwined with the fate of the 30-year bond. — Jim Cramer

I enjoy the debate ... I haven't met a single person in Congress yet that I dislike. It's not about moderating your views: it's about being able to talk about them and defending them in a way that's uplifting to people. — Kevin Cramer

I want to buy them, because historically these have been great engines of enrichment for the middle class, 'historically' meaning now for a good ten years. — Jim Cramer