Jordan Belfort, a former stockbroker who became renowned for his fraudulent activities in the 1990s, wrote the book The Wolf of Wall Street.
Let’s go through some of most powerful quotes from The Wolf of Wall Street book.
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The Wolf of Wall Street Quotes by Jordan Belfort
“They were drunk on youth, fueled by greed, and higher than kites.” ~ Jordan Belfort (quote from The Wolf of Wall Street).
“Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions.” ~ Jordan Belfort (quote from The Wolf of Wall Street).
“It was a hefty sum, $5 million, and in truth it had little to do with setting them up. In point of fact, they paid me out of loyalty, and out of respect. And at the very crux of it, what held it all together was the fact that they still considered themselves Strattonites. And I considered them such too.” ~ Jordan Belfort (quote from The Wolf of Wall Street).
“Victor was Chinese by birth and Jewish by injection, having been raised amid the most savage young Jews anywhere on Long Island: the towns of Jericho and Syosset.” ~ Jordan Belfort (quote from The Wolf of Wall Street).
“I’ve got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?” ~ Jordan Belfort (quote from The Wolf of Wall Street).
“I laughed right along with her, but inside I was dying. 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. But” ~ Jordan Belfort (quote from The Wolf of Wall Street).
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Quotes from The Wolf of Wall Street
“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 (quote from The Wolf of Wall Street).
“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 (quote from The Wolf of Wall Street).
“There’s no nobility in poverty.” ~ Jordan Belfort (quote from The Wolf of Wall Street).
“But what was wrong with that? They were drunk on youth, fueled by greed, and higher than kites.” ~ Jordan Belfort (quote from The Wolf of Wall Street).
“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 (quote from The Wolf of Wall Street).
“I had considered changing my phone number, but I was so far behind on my phone bill that NYNEX was after me too.” ~ Jordan Belfort (quote from The Wolf of Wall Street).
Famous The Wolf of Wall Street Quotes
“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 (quote from The Wolf of Wall Street).
“I want you to back yourself into a corner. Give yourself no choice but to succeed. Let the consequences of failure become so dire and so unthinkable that you’ll have no choice but to do whatever it takes to succeed.” ~ Jordan Belfort (quote from The Wolf of Wall Street).
“People don’t buy stock; it gets sold to them. Don’t ever forget that.” ~ Jordan Belfort (quote from The Wolf of Wall Street).
“You don’t choose who you fall in love with, do you? And once you do fall in love—that obsessive sort of love, that all-consuming love, where two people can’t stand to be apart from each other for even a moment—how are you supposed to let a love like that pass you by?” ~ Jordan Belfort (quote from The Wolf of Wall Street).
“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. Act as if you have unmatched experience and then people will follow your advice. And act as if you are already a tremendous success, and as sure as I stand here today – you will become successful.” ~ Jordan Belfort (quote from The Wolf of Wall Street).
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