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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

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Jim Cramer
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 10
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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.
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Well, he's just the same guy who in other aspects of his life would be very late to a trend.
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The people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do, deserve to lose money.
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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.
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A good investor in this new world knows to always expect the unexpected.
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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.
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This is a business, the direct selling, that bizarrely works best when times are bad.
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I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.
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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.
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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.
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I am not a hesitant bull, I'm a Pamplona bull.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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But be very, very careful, because when you're playing with momentum, you're playing with fire.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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