Explore Quotes by Jordan Belfort

There's no nobility in poverty.

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

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

Don't follow the path. Blaze the trail.

The story that you tell yourself is exactly what holds you back from being successful.

There’s no way to succeed in business without the highest ethical standards.

Don't hang up until the client either buys or dies.

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

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.

My name is Jordan Belfort. I was raised in a tiny apartment in Queens. At the tender age of 22 I headed to Wall Street. Within months I started my own firm out of an abandoned auto body shop. 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.

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.

The year I turned 26, as the head of my own brokerage firm, I made $49 million, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.

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 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?

No one hangs up the phone until the customer buys or dies.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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