Jim Cramer Quotes

Fundamentals make the market.

The only reason the stock market is doing so well is because of me. I've always been very good with money.

Predicting the market is always tough.

I've been investing in the stock market for 27 years and, within that time, have helped investors beat the market nearly four to one.

I always tell my traders that they would've loved the 1990s because it was a fairly easy time to make money.

The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

There is only one side of the market and it is not the bull side or the bear side, but the right side.

Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline.

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.

You can't manage Wall Street. Wall Street has its own viewpoints on everything. I have always believed, if you manage your business correctly, Wall Street will take care of itself.

Never, never try to scope the market.

Obviously, no one knows when the market is going to bottom out, and I am certainly not an economist.

I think the value of venues like CNBC is that they give investors an opportunity to reevaluate the situation minute by minute, but maybe we don't need to follow the market so closely.

The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market.

You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how profitable a hot commodities market can be. They will soon.

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.

If you go back to 2001, the market had two violent short covering rallies then, although I know the market didn't officially get going until March 2003.

Everybody thinks that they're going to time the market, they're going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.

I'm quite bullish. We're coming up on year 15 of a flat stock market. Historically that's a pretty good sign. So I'm not a hedge-fund manager but if I was I think I'd be feeling pretty good.

What turned me on then, and turns me on even today - and when the time comes from me to retire from management I think I'd still be interested in it - is that everything that happens in the world affects the price of securities.

Thanks, Mr. President. Nobody has complimented the stock exchange for a long while.

I don’t know why the Stock Market does what it does.

The markets do numbers, not nuance.

The markets are the world's greatest Rubik's cube. And I love solving puzzles.