Jim Cramer: "If you bet against NVIDIA, you're taking your life in your hands"

If you judge this one by last year's standard, NVIDIA looks like the easiest short of all time.  The stock's doubled off its lows last October and if you think the bear's coming out of hibernation, this is the one you want to short in May and go away.  But if you bet against NVIDIA, if you short it here, let me give you a little heads up: you're taking your life in your hands.  Don't forget to send me an invite to your funeral...  NVIDIA is now the definition of unstoppable.

~ Jim Cramer, CNBC's Mad Money, 4:25 mark, April 14, 2023

Jim Cramer pumps SVB Financial (2023)

The ninth best performer year-to-date is SVB Financial.  This company's a merchant bank with a deposit base that Wall Street has been mistakenly concerned about...  I think the fears were not justified and it's a very compelling situation.  Hey, by the way, private equity and venture capital, they're not going away.  Being a banker to these immense pools of capital has always been a very good business.  Stock's still cheap.

~ Jim Cramer, CNBC's Mad Money, February 8, 2023

Jim Cramer on the Omicron variant and vaccine mandates

So it's time to admit that we have to go to war against COVID.  Require vaccination universally.  Have the military run it.  If you don't want to get vaccinated, you better be ready to prove your conscientious objector status in court.

~ Jim Cramer, CNBC's "Mad Money," November 29, 2021

(Quote in "CNBC host suggests nationwide vaccine mandate: 'Have the military run it'," The Hill, November 30, 2021

Jim Cramer dismisses concerns about stagflation

While we wait for the world to go back to normal, don’t let the stagflationistas scare you away from the stock market.  We don’t really have a stagnant economy, and to the extent it’s slowing, I’m betting that will be pretty temporary.  As for inflation, it’s real, but we just need to buckle up and stop trading off every little tick of oil or every dime of ketchup.

~ Jim Cramer, "Jim Cramer says stagflation worries are overblown and investors shouldn’t panic," CNBC.com, October 11, 2021

Jim Cramer on the DiDi Global IPO

You've got my blessing to bet on DiDi.  I would try to get as many shares as you can.

~ Jim Cramer, before the June 30, 2021 IPO

Jim Cramer on solving the coronavirus problem

I think the free market can solve this.  I just wish the government would do everything in its power to expedite the process.

~ Jim Cramer

Jim Cramer: "They know nothing!"

Jim Cramer: Bernanke is being an academic.  It is no time to be an academic.  It is time to get on the Bear Stearns call.  Listen, open the darn Fed window.  He has no idea how bad it is out there!  He has no idea!  He has no idea! 

Erin Burnett: Cramer.

Cramer: I have talked to the heads of almost every single one of these firms over the last 72 hours and he has no idea what it's like out there.  None!  And Bill Poole?  Has no idea what it's like out there.  My people have been in this game for 25 years!  And they are losing their jobs and these firms are gonna go out of business and he's nuts!  They're nuts!!  They know nothing!!

~ Jim Cramer, CNBC discussion with Erin Burnett, 2:00 mark, August 3, 2007

Jim Cramer calls the top on NVIDIA

My dog is named Nvidia and he's about to hit an all-time high!!

~ Jim Cramer, CNBC tweet, June 1, 2018

Jim Cramer: "The long national nightmare for banks is over"

We're beginning to get a sense that the long national nightmare for banks is over.

~ Jim Cramer, CNBC

(Comment made after Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase reported better than expected earnings.)

Jim Cramer on how it's different this time than 2007-2008

So, considering all of those negatives, how come I'm not yelling "fire?" How come I’m not revisiting 2007 and 2008?  One simple reason: we do not have systematic risk. We aren't about to fall apart at the seams. Our banking system is well capitalized, perhaps the best it’s ever been. The consumer is healthiest than any time in my lifetime, thanks to a strong job market, lower energy prices, and an aversion to debt because of the Great Recession.

[...]

It was unnatural that we kept climbing with nary a reversal for so long. This selloff is a normal correction based on legitimate worries that could impact a big swath of the market. We’ve had these kinds of downdrafts all the time, but the bottom line is, if I were the kind of guy that shouts “fire” in a crowded theater with every reversal like this then this show wouldn’t be worth watching. It certainly wouldn’t be on for ten years. Instead I have three simple, but painful words for this particular moment: stay the course. You see we’ll get through this one. And after ten years, I think it’s safe to say, we always do.

~ Jim Cramer, CNBC's Mad Money, March 10, 2015

Jim Cramer on Janet Yellen: "The Fed wants the common person to make money."

As I listened, I heard a woman who was simply saying, look, the Great Recession is still with us psychologically. We aren't back to normal, because the downturn so scarred people that they aren't behaving as we would hope.  It's clear to me she's worried that the psyche of the country is too fragile...  The trick with the Yellen regime, like the trick with the Ben Bernanke regime before her is to remember that they speak for the common person.  The Fed wants the common person to make money.

~ Jim Cramer, CNBC, September 17, 2014

(Cramer commented on Yellen's press conference remarks after the FOMC meeting.)

Jim Cramer on Janet Yellen looking out for the little guy

She's pro-Main Street!  The Fed hasn't been pro-Main Street in a long time.

~ Jim Cramer, CNBC, July 3, 2014

Jim Cramer on emerging market jitters

This is what happens and you have to ride it through.

~ Jim Cramer, CNBC, January 29, 2014, 8:54 AM ET

(S&P 500 futures 12 points below fair value as Turkish lira lost initial 3% gains from its central bank rate hike to 12% from 7 3/4%.)

Jim Cramer on the next Berkshire Hathaway (2007)

I think every portfolio has to take the risk/reward here of finding the next Buffett.

A selloff in a healthy environment, where inflation is under control and interest rates are stable ... is a great opportunity to pick up leadership names like a Sears or a Brookfield or a Goldman.  These are asset managements -- that's why I like them. They aggressively manage their assets, and that's what you should be buying.

Eddie Lampert is a terrific investor, and he's the brains behind Sears. ... I am urging patience. I don't want people to quit Sears.

~ Jim Cramer, June 21, 2007

(On TheStreet.com TV's Wall Street Confidential Web video Thursday, he nominated Brookfield Asset Management (BAM) as an international Berkshire Hathaway; Sears (SHLD) is a domestic Berkshire Hathaway, he said.)

Jim Cramer: "Not a soul is bullish"

The only bullish aspect of today is not a soul is bullish and there seems to be no reason to rally.

~ Jim Cramer, Twitter, June 24, 2013

Jim Cramer sees sky rockets in flight, greater fool growth stock game delight

When lululemon participated in a retail conference January 12th, the CFO said, and I quote, "With this kind of growth course, it's like trying to ride a rocket ship." Well, when people heard that, man, they just panicked. A rocket ship? Rocket ships crash and burn! So they used this excuse to sell in the weeks that followed and they really nailed the stock.

But when I hear rocket ship, I think of a stock soaring into the stratosphere. And when it comes to this kind of explosive, rocket fuel growth story, you want to buy when it's still early and it's supposedly expensive.

~Jim Cramer, host of Mad Money, CNBC's "Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer", February 7, 2011

Jim Cramer discards traditional stock analysis in favor of momentum investing, once more

[Jim Cramer is standing in a yoga pose wearing tight black yoga pants and gray yoga shirt] Why am I standing here in this ridiculous, or perhaps ridiculously fashionable, yoga get up? It's not just because it flatters my figure. And I'm not doing this yoga pose merely to prove I'm the most limber 64-year-old man on television, soon to be 65.

No! I'm standing here in the Warrior II-pose, well, actually I'm standing in the Captain-pose, embarrassing myself on national TV, albeit basic cable, because I will do ANYTHING to help you overcome your fear of red hot stocks. Stocks that you avoid because they're already up huge, but you really should be buying them because some are poised to go higher still. Stocks like lululemon Atheletica, the yoga-oriented athletic apparel retailer that's become incredibly popular with women, and it's even starting to gain some cachet among men, as you can see from this great looking outfit I'm wearing right now.

And you know what? I'm not the only one who likes lululemon! We know via my favorite paper, the New York Post, that Tim Geithner, THE TREASURY SECRETARY -- who, I should add, has done a bang-up job -- he owns the stock! He bought $1,000 worth back in 2007. Should you invest like Geithner? Do you think Geithner does the Captain?

Should you buy some lululemon even though it made a brand new high today? And it's trading at what most people consider to be nosebleed valuations? Forty-two times, sky high earnings! Or is lululemon stock, like it's exorbitantly priced, $100 yoga outfits.

Yes! Lulu looks expensive by most traditional ways of analyzing stocks but that doesn't mean you should stay away from the darn thing, uh uh. The stock looked expensive when I recommended it back in September, when it was at $43.24 and since then it's given us an 81% gain. It looked expensive when I reiterated my buy call in December at $67.80, and if you bought it then you're up 15%, i-in two months!

Lululemon has had a tremendous run, but we don't care where stocks have come from in Cramerica, we only care about where they're going! As for lulu, I still think this steaming hot stock has room to run and I'll tell you why: lululemon is a growth story. It's a company that's still in its infancy, or at least it's childhood. It definitely hasn't yet reached it's adolescence, very similar to the person who is hosting this show.

~Jim Cramer, host of Mad Money, CNBC's "Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer", February 7, 2011

Jim Cramer on the prospects for Big Pharma

It's just one big expensive graveyard of stocks if you ask me. For those who own, or are thinking of owning one of these names -- I'm talking about Merck, Bristol-Myers, Eli Lilly, Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline or the ultimate dog of the drug stocks, Johnson & Johnson, with its Wall of Shame'r CEO -- it's time to recognize that these stocks aren't as defensive as they used to be, not by a long shot. It's the twilight of the Big Pharma idols, and you need to be ready for it.

All of these companies are about to fall off big patent cliffs as many of the blockbusters go generic. You know what it's like when you go to the drugstore and it's a lot of money, like $400, and the next day it's $15, that's going generic. It's incredibly difficult to find new blockbusters to replace them. The drug companies have all been insisting their drug pipelines will be able to offset some of the damage from patent expiration. They say that over and over, they come on TV and say it and it's not working.

~Jim Cramer, CNBC's Mad Money with Jim Cramer, February 17, 2011

Jim Cramer refuses to invest in stocks facing political intervention

[responding to a viewer's call-in question about Visa (V)]

I know better than to deal with a company that's in the cross hairs of the federal government. So, you know what? My 3-5 year outlook is deeply controlled by a couple of senators. I don't want any of my stocks to have anything to do with a couple of senators-- they can do whatever they want!

My answer to Visa is I can't own it, because I can't model what a senator from Illinois is going to do to a company.

~Jim Cramer, CNBC's Mad Money with Jim Cramer, February 17, 2011

(Meanwhile, Jim Cramer's entire bullish thesis for investing in stocks right now relies upon gross intervention and manipulation of the stock market by Federal Reserve monetary policy in the form of quantitative easing. How does Cramer model that one, and what happens when the Fed puts the brakes on the money-printing?)

Jim Cramer says confess your sins and ride the bull

Here's the bottom line: making money in a bull market like we have -- and any market that's the quickest to double in modern history, is a bull market, arguably the best bull ever  -- is something you must strive for. Missing these moves is actually a sin. Being ignorant or arrogant, more interested in cat-calling or mindless stock-bashing... these are the traits of losers, not winners.

And I need you to win, because we aren't tweeting, we're investing. It's not 140 words, it's real money.

~Jim Cramer, CNBC's Mad Money with Jim Cramer, February 17, 2011