Quotes About Investing

When I come to work each day, whether as a commentator for TheStreet.com or a host of Mad Money With Jim Cramer, I have only one thought in mind: helping people with their money.

I deal in facts, not forecasting the future. That's crystal ball stuff. That doesn't work.

All you need for a lifetime of successful investing is a few big winners, and the pluses from those will overwhelm the minuses from the stocks that don't work out.

The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.

One could imagine a period like Japan13 years ago, however, in which indexing over time wouldn't work.

Our best and brightest must conceive of themselves as stewards of our society and confront the critical challenges of our time. It's the best bet for our society, for entrepreneurs, and for the investors who believe in them.

Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.

Short sellers sell stock they have borrowed, hoping to buy it back later when its price has fallen.

Early in my career, we were just pure bottoms-up stock pickers.

Just because a stock is down doesn't mean it's a great buy.

Like a bank run, a decline in stock prices creates its own momentum.

Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.

Most shareholders have little if any control over the companies in which they own stock, even if they own a million shares.

Of course. I favor passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.

There's something we calculate called an alpha, and that's the stock's return that's independent, uncorrelated to the market. And the only way you really get a high alpha is for something to zig when the market zags.

Buying only what you know can end in disaster. Just think about Enron's employees and business partners, the 'locals' who bought lots of its stock because they thought they were in the know.

I'm not short, so I can make a speech and drive the stock down and cover the stock. That's not what I do.

When valuation confidence falls, it means that stock markets are perceived as overpriced.

In my business investing, you are buying a stock, and someone else is selling the stock. Right there, that's like a debate. Is the stock going up, or is it going to go down?

Loads of players love the stock markets. For me, it's fashion.

The stock market is a giant distraction from the business of investing.

Nothing is simpler than owning the stock market and holding it forever, and that's essentially the idea behind the index fund.

Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market.