74 Wolf Of Wall Street Quotes : Jordan Belfort, Sales
The Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 American biographical black comedy crime film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Terence Winter, based on the 2007 memoir of the same name by Jordan Belfort. It recounts Belfort’s perspective on his career as a stockbroker in New York City and how his firm, Stratton Oakmont, engaged in rampant corruption and fraud on Wall Street, which ultimately led to his downfall. These Wolf Of Wall Street quotes will inspire you in life to achieve success.
Best 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
- “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
- “When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.” – Jordan Belfort
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“The Wolf strikes again!” – Jordan Belfort
- “Still, give them to me young, hungry, and stupid. And in no time, I will make them rich.” – 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
- “Risk is what keeps us young.” – Joanna Lumley
- “Winners use words that say ‘must’ and ‘will’.” – Jordan Belfort
- “When the window of opportunity open, that’s when you work twice as hard.” – Jordan Belfort
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“I’ve got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?” – 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 learned enough. Do it differently each time. One day, you will do it right. Failure is your friend.” – 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
- “My name is Jordan Belfort. The year I turned 26, I made 49 million dollars, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.” – Jordan Belfort
- “Yeah, that’s right; money is the greatest single problem-solver known to man.” – Jordan Belfort
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“You wanna know what money sounds like? Go to a trading floor on Wall Street.” – 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
- “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
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“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
- “You see money doesn’t just buy you a better life, better food, better cars, better women, it makes you actually a better person. You can give generously to your church or political party of your choice.” – Jordan Belfort
- “After all, it was the nature of twentieth-century capitalism that everyone should scam everyone, and he who scammed the most ultimately won the game. On that basis, I was the undefeated world champ.” – Jordan Belfort
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“I want you to deal with your problems by becoming rich!” – Jordan Belfort
- “Perhaps I should have run the other way right then and there, realizing that a guy like this might bring out the worst in me.” – 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
- “Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions.” – Jordan Belfort , Wolf Of Wall Street quotes on implementation
- “He was a complicated man, my father; a man of great mental capacity who was driven to succeed yet humbled into mediocrity by his own emotional limitations.” – 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
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“Pay close attention to people who don’t clap when you win.” – Jordan Belfort
- “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
- “Yeah, like Buddhists. They don’t give a shit about money. They’re wrapped in sheets. They’re not buying shit.” – Alden Kupferberg
- “When it’s all said and done, it’s the energy we send out into the universe that often comes back to us. That’s a universal law, love.” – Jordan Belfort
- “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
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“If money isn’t everything, work at McDonald’s.” – Jordan Belfort
- “You got my money taped to your tits, honey. Technically, you do work for me.” – Donnie Azoff
- “They’re gonna have to call in the national guard to take me out, cause I ain’t going nowhere!” – Jordan Belfort
- “On a daily basis, I consume enough drugs 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
- “With this script, I’ll teach each and every one of you to be the best.” – Jordan Belfort
- “I can’t untie you! The captain tied you up, he almost fuckin’ tasered you!” – Donnie Azoff
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“Sell me this pen!” – Jordan Belfort
- “They were drunk on youth, fueled by greed, and higher than kites.” – Jordan Belfort
- “Give them to me young, hungry and stupid – and in no time I will make them rich.” – 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
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“There is no such thing as bad publicity. Your hair looks good.” – Teresa Petrillo
- “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
- “Fall in love with the person who enjoys your madness, not an idiot who forces you to be normal.” – Jordan Belfort
- “The name of the game, moving the money from the client’s pocket to your pocket.” – Mark Hanna
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“Always keep the client on the Ferris wheel”. – Mark Hanna
- “Was all this legal? Absolutely not but we were making more money than we knew what to do with.” – Jordan Belfort
- “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
- “I Ain’t Going Anywhere!” – 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
- “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
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“Every person around here, they want to get rich and they want to get rich quickly. They all want something for nothing.” – 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
- “It’s business. Leave your emotions at the door.” – Jordan Belfort
- “People don’t buy stock; it gets sold to them. Don’t ever forget that.” – Jordan Belfort
- “97% of the people who quit too soon are employed by the 3% who didn’t.” – Jordan Belfort
- “Best way to sell something: don’t sell anything. Earn awareness, respect, and trust of those who might buy.” – Jordan Belfort, Wolf Of Wall Street quotes on sales
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“Work until your bank account looks like a phone number.” – Jordan Belfort
- “Money is the tool, my child, not the mason; it can help you make acquaintances but not true friends, and it might buy you a life of leisure but not a life of peace.” – Jordan Belfort
- “You can watch me, mock me, try to block me but you cannot stop me.” – Jordan Belfort
- “The real question is this: was all this legal? Absolutely f**king not. But we were making more money than we knew what do with.” – Jordan Belfort
- “Best way to sell something: don’t sell anything. Earn awareness, respect and trust of those who might buy.” – Jordan Belfort
- “After all, guilt and remorse were worthless emotions, weren’t they? Well, I knew they weren’t; but I had no time for them. Forward motion; that was the key. Run as fast as you can and don’t look back.” – Jordan Belfort
