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Jim Cramer

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“Yes, and I know that I got the exception because my book to be on. I told you that I was writing the book and I was a man of my word to come back because I always wanted to be your show because you're just a thoughtful guy who, and when you were the stalwart, you were the first guy I read.”
2025-09-22 · Odd Lots · Jim Cramer on the Retail Trading Revolution · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was the biggest shareholder in the street.com. And we're going from 63 to 2. So I had kind of a premonition. I mean, when it was at 63, the New York observer said that I was 300 and drew a picture of me as a pig and said the $360 million man, by the time it came out, I was 260. And then a year later, I was 2.6.”
2025-09-22 · Odd Lots · Jim Cramer on the Retail Trading Revolution · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I mean, look, I recommended Google at 88, and I was investigated by the CNBC General Council for why I used 88. It's so big. And I said, because I didn't use 300. 300 was way”
2025-09-22 · Odd Lots · Jim Cramer on the Retail Trading Revolution · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, you've got to, there's a simple solution. You take out over time your cost basis, and then you play with the house's money. And then I'm okay because I'm at first do no harm guy, a hippocritical oath. And I can tell people, listen, if you want to do that for your one slot, be my guest. But as it goes up, you've got to take your cost out. And then I don't care where it goes. It's fantastic. But you are so right. That's what happens. Look, some people feel that Google is that NVIDIA. I mean, I worked enough on NVIDIA, not terrible. People work on Google.”
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“Was No, no, no, because it doesn't wrinkle. Because I would have said she in if I went in. I bought my wife's lingerie on Sheehan. And thank God we use matchlight. Don't have any to put gasoline on the floor.”
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“No, I like that. You don't have to press that because it has some sort of weird. Did you buy that in Temu or did you get that? I got to.”
2025-09-22 · Odd Lots · Jim Cramer on the Retail Trading Revolution · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“His ontology work is incredible. It's better than Scientology, ontology. But I want people to stop. Let it be one of your holdings, but don't do all because it will be crushed. And when I do believe it, and when it happens, you'll lose everything. And then anything I tried to do would be wrong. It's like when I was at college, I used to go to the racetrack. And then there was a guy named Andy Byer, who was teaching a course. He said, listen, if you're going to go speculate at the racetrack, at least know how to do it. And I never forgot that. And if you're going to speculate, I will show you how to do it. But I really want compounding. And I want compounding because what we know that that really is, Einstein did not call it the eighth one of the world, but we know that that is a much better way to make money, much better.”
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“Yeah, there's two markets, and that's one of the reasons why I wrote the book, because there's this market where that is a musical chair market. I make fun of it, it's a Palantir market, and I accept the fact that other students want to speculate, go do Palantir because Carp is, you know, carp is one of the greatest.”
2025-09-22 · Odd Lots · Jim Cramer on the Retail Trading Revolution · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, no. It is very funny because I do think they're the biggest threat. I mean, what they're doing in video. I do want NVIDIA to be the platform, but I haven't been to China so I'm secondarily. My son went to China to camel surf and he broke his, well, he hurt his shoulder, and they were going to operate immediately. And I said, look, I got to speak to the head of the hospital. And I can tell you it was a great town when I was growing up. And now it's a town where I can't believe it. I can't believe what happened. But the mills close. You know, the mills, the mills, the mills. I mean, now you can't bring back the Pyrex mill. Those good peeps by George Packer in the Atlantic about that. But I know we're really rambling here. I shouldn't ramble anymore.”
2025-09-22 · Odd Lots · Jim Cramer on the Retail Trading Revolution · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And when he died, they gave me the proceeds for three straight years. And they were the best bosses in the world. They had no idea.”
2025-09-22 · Odd Lots · Jim Cramer on the Retail Trading Revolution · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sometimes I'm very harsh about them Then that's because my father worked for St. Regis and Climax Union Camp. He worked for champion. He worked for Paper Company. He sold gift wrap and corrugated. And every single time he did well at one of these, they closed it. And they closed it because the Chinese targeted the gift wrapped industry. If you go to Costco, all you have is Chinese gift wrap. So my father at the age of 73 realized that's it. They wiped us out. called a company that does from China who had American rap and said, listen, I want to work for the Chinese. And what he did was he would sketch logos, restaurants, and suggest that they use doggy bags that have their own name and he had a drawstring doggy bag that the Chinese made for two bucks. He sold it for. And he then had the run of his lifetime from $73 to 92. He worked until the month he died. He actually had a good last month. And what's incredible was the Chinese treated him like kings.”
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“I always wondered why that was. Yes, they always were. Every plan, the five year for China was the same. They're long a lot of steel there. China's wrecked the steel market. President's Ted right on the transshipments. My old buddy Peter Navarro was right on the transshipments. It's wild that he's my old buddy, but he's my old buddy. And he went to jail. Bad. Not Yale, jail, because he went to Tufts. But I do think that when you look at China.”
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“It is very impressive. I wanted Apple to buy him. I pushing that drum forever. I mean, I was talking about that with Tim Coco on Friday. I really think that they need something, but because of the Google decision, the Judge Meta decision, it's possible that someone could pay them.”
2025-09-22 · Odd Lots · Jim Cramer on the Retail Trading Revolution · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because again, you've been in the game for decades. So I go out to dinner with Jensen Wong and he says, I know you spend all your time reading these reports. I just urge you to chat GBT the advanced and get the concise version and then see if it's one you want to do. And that has changed my life because there'll be 10. And it turns out that Pulti Home was important not because of Bill Pulte. He's not involved. And Stanley Black and Decker was important and Best Buy was that important. And then the others, I read the concise version and I could move on with my life. And that was a great break for me because it allowed me during the real earnings season to have 15 reports and just say, okay, I'm only going to do Cat and Proctor. Yeah.”
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“God, I love it so much. I do. And I was doing something last night at dinner, and I really wanted to get home because I wanted to formulate a thesis on DRAMs. Well, there you go. But I am so fixated on this. And I find the puzzle so difficult and fabulous, the NVIDIA puzzle. The puzzle this morning we have about what's going to happen. I have to, I'll write my top right after the Fed, and this is such an exciting day. You get 12 of these. So I don't know. And look, it's a great question because I don't know how long you can do it. And I do want to see the world. I don't take as much vacation. I mean, I'm offered six weeks. I take four. But it's because I love it. It is because I love it. It's not sickness. It really isn't.”
2025-09-22 · Odd Lots · Jim Cramer on the Retail Trading Revolution · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I want to get out as many people as I can. And these were moments that at the time you'll really appreciate this show. When I did these, subsequently I was so ridiculed that I would say to myself, why the hell did I ever do it? And I knew it was right, but no, I had such angst, even though I was right. I was attacked by so many people. But now, of course, it's a dish best taste.”
2025-09-22 · Odd Lots · Jim Cramer on the Retail Trading Revolution · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And then I did that other thing where I went if you have any on the today's show, if you need your money anytime the next five years, the market just fell 40% after this. They used to take it out now because I didn't want people, by the way, it took five years to get the market back to where it was. I was worried about people on a fixed income, fixed on me and they owned General Mills and they owned Chevron. And I just felt like it was just really the wrong time. And then the next day they had me back. And Curry asked me, look, you said this thing on the show. Do you want to take it back? And I said, No. I mean, sometimes when you yell fire in a crowded theater, there's a fire.”
2025-09-22 · Odd Lots · Jim Cramer on the Retail Trading Revolution · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, there's a nice article in the FT about it when the actual, not the minutes, but the actual transcript came out about how they laughed at me. And they actually mentioned this. Yeah, we laughed at him. He said, Oh, Kramer, he's really funny. It was about speaking to a lot of people who were saying, you got to get on the case here. You guys are just oblivious. You're acting as if it's a regular market. And my friend Aaron Burnett was going on about a regular thing, and I just had to interrupt. And I said, look, they know nothing. They know nothing. And that was speaking about Bembernanke, who really, I think, did know nothing during that period. And I was widely castigated. I had to go on the today's show the next day where Matt Lauer, whatever, said you were off your meds. I want to hear more about this. Nelcy, when you say that someone's off their meds, that presumes that you were on your meds. And again, I mean, like, look, am I used to being demeaned? Does it bother me? It doesn't bother me like it used to, but I do say that that ran holds up. And I'm proud.”
2025-09-22 · Odd Lots · Jim Cramer on the Retail Trading Revolution · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, he did. 16 years now. And I meet younger people and they've never heard of it. But those people never realize that the New York Giants were good football team. Kind of happens like that My most important tip is to say they're not thinking of it when they talk to you. In other words, you're thinking of it, but give yourself a break. Most of them are not. I would say like.”
2025-09-22 · Odd Lots · Jim Cramer on the Retail Trading Revolution · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“NBC told me to be on Jon Stewart, and I didn't know the show, and I didn't know that he would be unfair, and I didn't explain, they were telling me basically that it would be convivial. So I didn't come with my A game. I came with my F game. And it was mortifying and terrible. And every time I looked out, I mean, I always thought people look at me. Now there's a whole generation of people”
2025-09-22 · Odd Lots · Jim Cramer on the Retail Trading Revolution · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And you ask your wife what can do or your partner what's right because everyone has got an agenda at work but my wife's agenda is me and so I always knew that she was like a good lawyer there's attorney client privilege there's spousal privilege”
2025-09-22 · Odd Lots · Jim Cramer on the Retail Trading Revolution · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What a cool idea. I didn't want it. It was one of those things. This is, you know, you go through it and your wife says, I don't want you to acknowledge him. I said, well, the guy's a total joker. She says, I don't want you to acknowledge him. And a lot of times what happens is you do go back to your home”
2025-09-22 · Odd Lots · Jim Cramer on the Retail Trading Revolution · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I left the company, but it wasn't my idea. I didn't want to leave the company to. To be very specific, but he became mayor. And look, I always worshipped him. What can I say? And I won't even talk about the myriad charities that he really did fund because that's not why I did it. And I always admire that more than anything. He never wanted anyone to know in New York. It's so predominant. You go into a building and the guy's got his name on it. Well, that is not Mayor Bloomberg. Mayor Bloomberg was, I remember giving an award for what we did at the Brooklyn Bridge. I don't know if you guys have been to Brooklyn Bridge Park, but this city's been redumb. And a lot of it is that Mr. Mayor.”
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“I don't believe that. No, seriously. We're going to bring you down. Oh my God, I want a selfie. It's never ridiculous. Even though you love...”
2025-09-22 · Odd Lots · Jim Cramer on the Retail Trading Revolution · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's why I don't think that we're going to be San Francisco. I also think, by the way, we went to trains on time. We want public safety. I don't think that's, I don't think they're in play. I just really don't. Now, I'm in New Jersey citizen. I happen to love the government of New Jersey. It was my boss at Goldman Sachs. But look, I just want everyone to be able to recognize that the town has made a great comeback. And there's just so many great places. And I hate to see anything devolved in the San Francisco, which is getting better, but was a nightmare to the point where I stopped going. I used to do four times a year my show. But I saw a guy pull a knife. I was in front of, I was behind him at Walgreens, get all the money, and then the cops arrested him outside, and they released him. And I said, what are you doing? He says, well, we are you a hunter. I said, I'm a fisherman. He said, well, we do the same thing. We catch him released.”
2025-09-22 · Odd Lots · Jim Cramer on the Retail Trading Revolution · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A sort of different. I think different shaded liberal Democrats. I mean, I remember Occupy Wall Street. I used to go to it every see what's going on, interview people. And they didn't know where they were politically because they were so confused. And we all in the media kind of felt that they were communists or leftists, wanted to tear down Wall Street. They just, I mean, they were just sleeping in a cold stone and trying to say, listen, we're unhappy. And their ethos was zero. I think that the marrow race, I mean, look, I care about defunding police versus police because I care about public safety And I saw what happened in San Francisco. Zoroonda.”
2025-09-22 · Odd Lots · Jim Cramer on the Retail Trading Revolution · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, they're not because we have great job growth in the revolutions have typically been preceded by famine. Okay, well then how serious like...”
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“And what he did with Grant. Oh my God. He found out the goal, you know, where they were on the gold standard and he compromised. There were many, many stories about presidents, I think, helping by mistake.”
2025-09-22 · Odd Lots · Jim Cramer on the Retail Trading Revolution · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Presidential knowledge of market. Okay, well, first, I would take Andrew Johnson because he just was an insider trade note. I don't know. I mean, read any of these books about Jay Gould.”
2025-09-22 · Odd Lots · Jim Cramer on the Retail Trading Revolution · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“President Clint Well, they all said it didn't matter which president, nobody ever did what I said. President Biden was hilarious. We meet him on that train. He said, honestly, I am the poorest of the hundred. Why do I need your information? I said, you don't need it at all. I mean, I'm not going to take him to minus five. I do think that President Clinton was very smart about the market and understood that laid off workers were the tinder to get a stock higher. He was really smart about the market. President Bush number two, not that smart.”
2025-09-22 · Odd Lots · Jim Cramer on the Retail Trading Revolution · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think that you guys did a piece. I think it was you, Joe, about how that you've been thinking a lot about the billionaires, thinking a lot about the. And I think that the way I square that is that if I go back to President Reagan, he was disgusted by how much the CEOs made and the difference and how the CEOs did never had to pay the price and the workers had to pay the price. You talk about Reagan. And funny that Elizabeth Warren reminded me about this when I saw her. I just think that it's a travesty. I met with President Clinton over a plan which said, look, I think that workers should get shares if they're laid off because typically a stock goes up after they're laid off. And what he did was he gave me a can of Coke, dried coke, said this is the greatest idea in the world. We're going to run with it and nothing ever happened.”
2025-09-22 · Odd Lots · Jim Cramer on the Retail Trading Revolution · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Okay, actually, a really great question. The light was when I helped strike J.P. Stevens. Now JP Stevens was a terrific towel company linen company, with JP Stevens being a scrape Princeton alum and we knew where he lived and we targeted the management and really thought we had it going and we were crushing it and I was like coming up from the south to help work on it and then they closed the company rather than deal with us. They closed it. And that was when I had a change of heart because I said. Wait a second, I just help take away the livelihood, the healthcare, the dinner for thousands of workers by trying to get them more money. And I really had to rethink it. And I just said, well, maybe the Spartas thing, more focus on the matter at hand, which is covering homicide. But I really felt awful about what...”
2025-09-22 · Odd Lots · Jim Cramer on the Retail Trading Revolution · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But we had Steve Carlton then a long time ago, probably, but he used to pitch games in an hour and a half. I was always long a huge amount of ice cream in July. It was just dreadful. So I let the Wildcat strike. And it was very good. They called me in. They said, you're fine. I said, well, you can't do that. Well, you're not going to get any ice cream tonight. You can come while you want to this, but you're not getting any ice cream. And that was it. And that was bad”
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“I ran a Wildcat strike at the Phillies, where I felt that we should have, look, we're doing all the work here. I talk to these guys out. We're doing all the work here. And yet everyone else, the overlords, by the way, can I just tell you, you had to do a kickback. When you were selling ice cream, hey, ice cream, vanilla, and chocolate, one-third of your money went back to the guy, so you didn't get strawberry ice cream because you can't sell strawberry. Nobody wants strawberry. That was the big threat. Hey, listen, shut up, Kramer. You're going to get strawberry. But I had a seventh level concession that I paid everybody. I paid everybody not to come up the seventh level, so I owned it.”
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“The train, man. Only the money train, the Armenian money train in shield in that train really worked. Yeah. Well, I guess the fugitive train crash was a good train crash. I like Union Pacific here.”
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“Yeah. Okay. We had pretty big following, and there were not that many Leninists. I mean, you know, Trotsky was pretty good writer. Lennon was, he wrote What is to be done? His version, there were two What is to be done. And that's a good read. But Trotsky really was a very thoughtful guy and also a great army general. People forget that.”
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“Yes. The workers united should never be defeated because we're about the workers owning the means of production so therefore we should own the company. And Notrowski obviously gravely misunderstood including the ice pick, the ice pick very bad. Yeah, he missed the ice pick. Suboptimal day, the ice pick. But I just think that that made a lot of sense. I went that way. Just when you're at Harvard.”
2025-09-22 · Odd Lots · Jim Cramer on the Retail Trading Revolution · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You With whom you do I used to be stopped as Uncle Vlad all the time. Okay, mine was Spartacist because I believed. And who were they? Were they tried?”
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“For years to come. I see these people that I've worked with here. Vil Donna. And these are the cream of the crop. And when I was at the street, everybody who was good, I actually encouraged them to come here because they started the street and the idea is to move up. And you want to go to a place where people can be thoughtful. And look, I'm not saying this to suck up. I'm saying I worked here. And that's what the essence was before.”
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“But I listened, you're kind of, you know, you're a hitter. This show's a hitter. What can I say? I like the show. It's okay to say I like the show. Yeah.”
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“Versus a stock picker? Yes, this is really, let's say last night's show, I tried to explain that what matters today with the Fed is what will the curve change? Will interest rates start going up on the long end or down and down is the big win. Long end up is what happened last year. We had the stutter step and then we had the December crash when pal just said, listen, we're done. That's going to be the judge, but I had to use all sorts of analogies because the curve, you can't ever mention the curve. Like Dav Reed Sidney Homer.”
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“It's great to be substantive and great to be able to explain and educate. And no one said education doesn't work for the numbers. Do you actually?”
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“The Mary loved it, yeah, because he wanted people to listen. You know, Bull Bear, those easy sounds to imagine incorrect, a buzzer, but a guillotine for they had to cut their numbers and that kind of thing.”
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“So supportive, and I love him. I mean, look, once you leave he's not as supportive, but what can I say? I mean, this is Bloomberg. We should try to.”
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“He really does. He was my big, you know, look, I think if I say he was my biggest backer, that sounds like a joke or he loved what I did. And the sound effects got people going and it was drive time and he was.”
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“And you know where that radio The greatest radio network in the world And the mayor ran it twice a day because he thought it was a lot of it was educational.”
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“Doesn't it? It's kind of Perma. But when we have that week where JP Morgan starts and Wells does it, that weekend is just miserable. Fortunately during the summer I garden. My weekends are just filled with this.”
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“I go to bed at 11. She goes to bed at like a normal time. So that's when I the marriage. That's not the plan. I don't set out to do that previously. Bad strategy. But I just find that I have to do that. And that's during when you have that rush. Earning season no longer is a season because companies feels”
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“So then, like I have a great marriage. I put that out first because I wreck it every day. I finish the show at quarter sixth. It's taped. I come home. I have a bite to eat. I mean, I had to go out to dinner last night. And then I say goodnight to my wife.”
2025-09-22 · Odd Lots · Jim Cramer on the Retail Trading Revolution · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Really, one of the things during the During the day, I spend a huge amount of time. I mean, for instance, I'm in the Halcyon moment here because the only thing I had to read this point was General Mills. And I'll read more of that because they talked about how the consumer is hurting. If you're hurting maybe because Blue Buffalo actually was plus six, but if you look at some of their brands, proprietary brands, they can be knocked off. It's not like when Costco couldn't knock off Coca-Cola. There's stuff's more fungible. There's more elastic. But I spend a couple hours a day on the book.”
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