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

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Jim Cramer
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 10
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Don't move your money from Bear. That's just being silly. Don't be silly.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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 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.
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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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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.
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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 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 made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.
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I invest in funds myself even though I run my own fund for my daughters.
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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.
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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 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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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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