Quotes from Jim 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

When people ask me how I was able to make so much money in the market during a 20-year period, I would always say I did it off the misunderstandings of others.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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