Jordan Belfort Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

Winners use words that say 'must' and 'will'. — Jordan Belfort

[Aunt] Patricia smiled, and we walked in silence for a while. But it wasn't a poisonous silence. It was the sort of silence shared by two people who're comfortable enough not to force a conversation ahead of its logical progression. I found this woman's company to be incredibly soothing. — Jordan Belfort

There's no way to succeed in business without the highest ethical standards. — Jordan Belfort

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

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

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

Don't follow the path. Blaze the trail. — Jordan Belfort

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

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

You are not the mistakes of your past, but the resources and capabilities that you have gleaned from your past. — Jordan Belfort

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

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. — Jordan Belfort

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

The year I turned 26 I made $49 million, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week. — Jordan Belfort

And from the time I was a kid, I've had this internal monologue roaring through my head, which doesn't stop - unless I'm asleep. I'm sure every person has this; it's just that my monologue is particularly loud. And particularly troublesome. I'm constantly asking myself questions. And the problem with that is that your brain is like a computer: If you ask a question, it's programmed to respond, whether there's an answer or not. I'm constantly weighing everything in my mind and trying to predict how my actions will influence events. Or maybe manipulate events are the more appropriate words. It's like playing a game of chess with your own life. And I hate fucking chess! — 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 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

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

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

And my wife ... well, I guess she'd earned her scene with me, but still; did she really have that much reason to be angry? I mean, when she married me she knew what she was getting into, didn't she? She had been my mistress, for Chrissake! That spoke volumes, didn't it? — Jordan Belfort

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. — Jordan Belfort

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

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. — Jordan Belfort

But what I sincerely hope is that my life serves as a cautionary tale to the rich and poor alike; to anyone who's living with a spoon up their nose and a bunch of pills dissolving in their stomach sac; or to any person who's considering taking a God-given gift and misusing it; to anyone who decides to go to the dark side of the force and live a life of unbridled hedonism. And to anyone who thinks there's anything glamorous about being known as a Wolf of Wall Street. BOOK I — Jordan Belfort

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. — Jordan Belfort

There's no nobility in poverty. — Jordan Belfort

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