How Jim Cramer got to where he is

Jim Cramer

Adam Carlson and Emily Strohm of People magazine profile CNBC anchor Jim Cramer in the latest issue.

Carlson and Strohm write, “That led to a career in money management, which led to Goldman Sachs and then to CNBC. Cramer credits his success to his hunger and perseverance – and luck.

“‘I was able to use my skills to be able to get to a really good place that I’m thrilled about,’ Cramer says. ‘But I think that people never gave enough credit to luck, and I was very lucky to be at the right place at the right time at many points in my career.’

“‘I’ve had lots of ups and downs,’ he says, ‘and you just gotta [get] up every morning and put your pants on.'”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.