14 Empowering Jordan Belfort Quotes As Seen In Wolf Of Wall Street

Jordan Ross Belfort, born July 9, 1962, is an American motivational speaker and former stockbroker. He was convicted of fraud crimes related to stock market manipulation and running a boiler room as part of a penny stock scam, for which he spent 22 months in prison. He recounted his life in his memoir, The Wolf of Wall Street, and a film adaptation, released in 2013, was directed by Martin Scorsese and starred Leonardo DiCaprio as Belfort.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Winners use words that say ‘must’ and ‘will’.

There’s no nobility in poverty.

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.

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

I’ve got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?

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.

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.

When the window of opportunity open, that’s when you work twice as hard.