Jordan Belfort Quotes

There's only 1 way to get rich, quick! But not through a get rich quick scheme. There's a difference.

Don't follow the path. Blaze the trail.

When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.

Whether you say, 'I can' or 'I can't,' you're right either way.

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.

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.

Dream stompers are people who want to stomp on your hopes and dreams. Lose their phone numbers

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.

No matter what happened to you in your past, you are not your past, you are the resources and the capabilities you glean from it. And that is the basis for all change.

If you give people a good enough 'why', they will always figure out the 'how'.

Best way to sell something: don't sell anything. Earn the awareness, respect and trust of those who might buy.

Some people say that it's so hard with the Internet, but I know for a fact that the Internet has made it easier for someone to establish themselves. There's so much you can do online. If you know how to use it right, the web serves as the great equalizer for someone that's just getting into business.

There's no nobility in poverty.

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?

Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty

They were drunk on youth, fueled by greed, and higher than kites.

Inside the restaurant young Strattonites carried on their time-honored tradition of acting like packs of untamed wolves.

Money doesn't just buy you a better life, better food, better cars, better pussy - it also makes you a better person.

Winners use words that say 'must' and 'will'.

I had considered changing my phone number, but I was so far behind on my phone bill that NYNEX was after me too.

There are always patterns in everything, there are patterns in books, there are patterns in human behavior, there are patterns in success, there are patterns for everything in life. You just need to pay attention to them.

You need to see things as they are, not worse than they are, than see them better than they are, and make them that way.

Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions.

I do not come from a rich family, but I come from a really good family.