Top 33 Quotes & Sayings by Jordan Belfort

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American speaker Jordan Belfort.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Jordan Ross Belfort is an American entrepreneur, speaker, author, former stockbroker, and financial criminal. In 1999, he pleaded guilty to fraud and related crimes in connection with stock-market manipulation and running a boiler room as part of a penny-stock scam. Belfort spent 22 months in prison as part of an agreement under which he gave testimony against numerous partners and subordinates in his fraud scheme. He published the memoir The Wolf of Wall Street in 2007, which was adapted into a film with the same name released in 2013, where he was played by Leonardo DiCaprio.

American - Speaker | Born: July 9, 1962

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

Jordan Belfort

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

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You grow stronger from failure than you do from success.

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

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

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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.

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

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Don't follow the path. Blaze the trail.

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There's no nobility in poverty.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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?

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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