Since 1998, The character of Belfort has been played in 2 series. The Wolf of Wall Street and Catching the Wolf of Wall Street, have been published in nearly 40 countries and translated into 18 languages. The story of his life was turned into a film starring Leonardo Dicaprio, Jonah Hill, and Margot Robbie and directed by Martin Scorsese. Filming began in August 2012. The film was released on December 25, 2013. Here is a collection of the wolf of wall street quotes from Jordan Belfort and other characters from the movie about money and inspiration.
His skills gave him the life of kings, but the dreams of many people of America were broken because of it. Yes, we are talking about Jordan Belfort, the stockbroker who defrauded the people of America by more than 200 million! Becoming the owner of a million dollar company from a modest salesman, spending thousands of dollars to get prostit#tes and dr#gs for his employees, getting caught in the clutches of the FBI, After stealing 200 crores from people, imprisoned for just 22 months and now living life in fun again, Jordan’s story is no less than a superhit film story.
Wolf of Wall Street Quotes
- “The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” – Jordan Belfort
- “Hard work beats talent. Every time!” – Jordan Belfort
- “When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.” – Jordan Belfort
- “Risk is what keeps us young.” – Joanna Lumley
- “When the window of opportunity open, that’s when you work twice as hard.” – Jordan Belfort
- “I’ve got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?” – Jordan Belfort
- “Whether you say, ‘I can’ or ‘I can’t,’ you’re right either way.” – Jordan Belfort
- “If you give people a good enough ‘why’, they will always figure out the how.” – Jordan Belfort
- “You wanna know what money sounds like? Go to a trading floor on Wall Street.” – Jordan Belfort
- “Money is the oxygen of capitalism and I wanna breathe more than any man alive.” – Jordan Belfort
- “There is no nobility in poverty.” – Jordan Belfort
“I want you to deal with your problems by becoming rich!”
– Jordan Belfort
- “Let me give you some legal advice: Shut the fuck up!” – Agent Patrick Denham
- “If anyone over here thinks I’m superficial or materialistic, go get a job at McDonald’s because that’s where you belong.” – Jordan Belfort
- “I’ll tell you what: I’m never eating at Benihana again. I don’t care whose birthday it is.” – Donnie Azoff
- “There are two keys to success in the broker business; first of all you gotta stay relaxed, secondly you gotta always get stay high.” – Mark Hanna
- “Yeah, like Buddhists. They don’t give a shit about money. They’re wrapped in sheets. They’re not buying shit.” – Alden Kupferberg
- “You got my money taped to your t#ts, honey. Technically, you do work for me.” – Donnie Azoff
- “On a daily basis, I consume enough dr#gs to sedate Manhattan, Long Island, and Queens for a month.” – Jordan Belfort
- “The nice thing about being rescued by Italians is that they feed you, make you drink red wine, then you get to dance.” – Jordan Belfort
- “I can’t untie you! The captain tied you up, he almost fuckin’ tasered you!” – Donnie Azoff
- “Sell me this pen!” – Jordan Belfort
- “They were drunk on youth, fueled by greed, and higher than kites.” – Jordan Belfort
- “There is no such thing as bad publicity. Your hair looks good.” – Teresa Petrillo
“The name of the game, moving the money from the client’s pocket to your pocket.”
– Mark Hanna
- “Always keep the client on the Ferris wheel”. – Mark Hanna
- “Was all this legal? Absolutely not but we were making more money then we knew what to do with.” – Jordan Belfort
- “One thing I can promise you is that I never ask my clients to judge me on my winners, I ask them to judge me on my losers because I have so few.” – Jordan Belfort
- “Just like that I made two grand, the other guys looked at me like I just discovered fire.” – Jordan Belfort
- “Every person around here, they want to get rich and they want to get rich quickly. They all want something for nothing.” – Jordan Belfort
- “It’s business. Leave your emotions at the door.” – Jordan Belfort
- “97% of the people who quit too soon are employed by the 3% who didn’t.” – Jordan Belfort
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- “Best way to sell something: don’t sell anything. Earn awareness, respect and trust of those who might buy.” – Jordan Belfort
- “Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions.” – Jordan Belfort
- “People don’t buy stock; it gets sold to them. Don’t ever forget that.” – Jordan Belfort
- “OK, first rule of Wall Street. Nobody – and I don’t care if you’re Warren Buffet or Jimmy Buffet – nobody knows if a stock’s going up, down or fucking sideways, least of all stockbrokers, but we have to pretend we know.” – Mark Hanna
- “I don’t think you’re cut out for this job. You look like a kid, and Wall Street’s no place for kids. “It’s a place for killers. A place for mercenaries. So in that sense you’re lucky I’m not the one who does the hiring around here.” ― Jordan Belfort
“Winners use words that say ‘must’ and ‘will’.”
– Jordan Belfort
- “There were certain things that you just didn’t joke about; it was simply bad luck. It was like pissing in the fate god’s eye. If you did it long enough, he was certain to piss right back at you. “And his urine stream was like a fucking fire hose.” – Jordan Belfort
- “They’re gonna need a f*cking wrecking ball to take me out of here. They’re gonna need to send in the national guard or fucking swat team, cause I ain’t going nowhere!” – Jordan Belfort
- “Fugayzi, fugazi. It’s a whazy. It’s a woozie. It’s fairy dust. it doesn’t exist. It’s never landed. It is no matter. It’s not on the elemental chart. It’s not fucking real.” – Mark Hanna
- “There was this one time I was selling pot to this Amish dude. You know those guys who got like the beard with, like, no mustache or some bullshit? Well, he says that he only wants to make furniture.” – Alden Kupferberg
- “I believe in total immersion, if you want to be rich, you have to program your mind to be rich. You have to unlearn all the thoughts that were making you poor and replace them with new thoughts – rich thoughts.” – Jordan Belfort
- “The easiest way to make money is – create something of such value that everybody wants and go out and give and create value, the money comes automatically.” – Jordan Belfort
- “If I earn a million dollars a week and the average American earns a thousand dollars a week, then when I spend twenty thousand dollars on something it’s the equivalent of the average American spending twenty dollars on something, right?” ― Jordan Belfort “I have been a rich man and I have been a poor man. And I choose rich every fucking time. Because at least as a rich man, when I have to face my problems, I show up in the back of a limo, wearing a $2,000 suit and a $40,000 gold fucking watch!” – Jordan Belfort
- “If you want to be rich, never give up. People tend to give up. If you have persistence, you will come out ahead of most people. More importantly, you will learn. When you do something, you might fail. But that’s not because you’re a failure. It’s because you have not learnt enough. Do it differently each time. One day, you will do it right. Failure is your friend.” – Jordan Belfort
- “Successful people are 100% convinced that they are masters of their own destiny, they’re not creatures of circumstance, they create circumstance, if the circumstances around them suck they change them.” – Jordan Belfort
- “Act as if! Act as if you’re a wealthy man, rich already, and then you’ll surely become rich. Act as if you have unmatched confidence and then people will surely have confidence in you.” – Jordan Belfort
- “See those little black boxes? They’re called telephones. I’m gonna let you in on a little secret about these telephones. They’re not gonna dial themselves. Okay? Without you, they’re just worthless hunks of plastic. Like a loaded M16 without a trained Marine to pull the trigger.” – Jordan Belfort
