The Wolf of Wall Street Quotes by Jordan Belfort 2021

Nicknamed “the Wolf of Wall Street,” Jordan Belfort made millions in the 1990s through his investment company. Here we share Top 85 The Wolf of Wall Street Quotes by Jordan Belfort.

In 1999, Belfort pleaded guilty to numerous crimes related to stock market manipulation and the running of a long-term scam involving penny stocks. In the wake of his sentencing and time in prison, Belfort wrote two memoirs: the first, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Way of the Wolf.

His memoir is the basis for the 2013 Martin Scorsese film ‘The Wolf of Wall Street,’ starring Leonardo DiCaprio. It recounts Belfort’s perspective on his career as a stockbroker in New York City and how his firm, Stratton Oakmont, engaged in rampant corruption and fraud on Wall Street, which ultimately led to his downfall.

Let’s check his famous Jordan Belfort quotes from The wolf of wall street.

The Wolf of Wall Street Quotes

1:) “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.” – Jordan Belfort

2:) “You wanna know what money sounds like? Go to a trading floor on Wall Street.” – Jordan Belfort

3:) “My money is attached to your bo*bs. So technically, you work for me.” – Jordan Belfort

4:) “I am not gonna die sober!” – Jordan Belfort

5:) “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

6:) “The name of the game, moving the money from the client’s pocket to your pocket.” – Mark Hanna

7:) “If anyone over here thinks I’m superficial or materialistic, go get a job at McDonald’s because that’s where you belong.” – Jordan Belfort

8:) “The real question is this was all this legal? Absolutely f**king not. But we were making more money than we knew what do with.” – Jordan Belfort

9:) “Hard work beats talent. Every time!” – Jordan Belfort

10:) “If I’m not mistaking, you just tried to bribe a federal officer.” – Jordan Belfort

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11:) “Yeah, like Buddhists. They don’t give an sh*t. They’re wrapped in sheets. They’re not buying shit.” – Alden Kupferberg

12:) “There are two keys to success in the broker business; first of all you gotta stay relaxed, secondly you gotta always get stay high.” – Mark Hanna

13:) “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.” – Jordan Belfort

14:) “I ain’t going anywhere!” – Jordan Belfort

15:) “With this script, I’ll teach each and every one of you to be the best.” – Jordan Belfort

16:) “Sell me this pen.” – Jordan Belfort

17:) “I had considered changing my phone number, but I was so far behind on the phone bill that NYNEX was after me too.” – Jordan Belfort

18:) “My name is Jordan Belfort. The year I turned, I made  million dollars, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.” – Jordan Belfort

19:) “I choose rich every f**king time.” – Jordan Belfort

20:) “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

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Jordan Belfort quotes about making money

21:) “There was this one time I was selling pot to this Amish dude. Do you know those guys who got like the beard with, like, no mustache or some bullshit? Well, he says that he only wants to make furniture.” – Alden Kupferberg

22:) “People don’t buy stock; it gets sold to them. Don’t ever forget that.” – Jordan Belfort

23:) “When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.” – Jordan Belfort

24:) “If money isn’t everything, work at McDonald’s.” – Jordan Belfort

25:) “See those little black boxes? They’re called telephones. I’m gonna let you in on a little secret about these telephones. They’re not gonna dial themselves. Okay? Without you, they’re just worthless hunks of plastic. Like a loaded M without a trained Marine to pull the trigger.” – Jordan Belfort

26:) “Well, basically, you know, if the kid was retarded I would. I would, you know, drive it up to the country and just like, you know, open the door and let it. say “You’re free now!” Do you know? Like, “Run free!” You know?” – Donnie Azoff

27:) “One thing I can promise you is that I never ask my clients to judge me on my winners, I ask them to judge me on my losers because I have so few.” – Jordan Belfort

28:) “They were drunk on youth, fueled by greed, and higher than kites.” – Jordan Belfort

29:) “It’s business. Leave your emotions at the door.” – Jordan Belfort

30:) “Gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers in this racket. I myself, I jerk off at least twice a day.” – Mark Hanna

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31:) “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

32:) “Money is the oxygen of capitalism and I wanna breathe more than any man alive.” – Jordan Belfort

33:) “I want you to deal with your problems by becoming rich!” – Jordan Belfort

34:) “You got my money taped to your tits, honey. Technically, you do work for me.” – Donnie Azoff

35:) “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

36:) “What kind of a hooker takes credit cards? A rich one!” – Jordan Belfort

37:) “Was all this legal? Absolutely not but we were making more money then we knew what to do with.” – Jordan Belfort

38:) “And you know what else, Daddy? Mommy is just sick and tired of wearing panties.” – Jordan Belfort

39:) “I’m not fucking leaving! The show goes on!” – Jordan Belfort

40:) “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

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41:) “So you listen to me and you listen well. Are you behind on your credit card bills? Good, pick up the phone and start dialing! Is your landlord ready to evict you? Good! Pick up the phone and start dialing! Does your girlfriend think you’re fucking worthless loser? Good! Pick up the phone and start dialing! I want you to deal with your problems by becoming rich!” – Jordan Belfort

42:) “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

43:) “I’ve got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?” – Jordan Belfort

44:) “Every person around here, they want to get rich and they want to get rich quickly. They all want something for nothing.” – Jordan Belfort

45:) “Sweetheart, you have my money taped to your tits. Technically, you do work for me.” – Jordan Belfort

46:) “But what was wrong with that? They were drunk on youth, fueled by greed, and higher than kites.” – Jordan Belfort

47:) “I’ll tell you whatI’m never eating at Benihana again. I don’t care whose birthday it is.” – Donnie Azoff

48:) “You know, just. people say s**t. I don’t even know. I don’t even listen to it half the time.” – Jordan Belfort

49:) “You see money doesn’t just buy you a better life, better food, better cars, better women, it makes you actually a better person. You can give generously to your church or political party of your choice.” – Jordan Belfort

50:) “99% of the people who quit too soon are employed by the 1% who didn’t.” – Jordan Belfort

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Wolf of wall street quotes about success

51:) “There is no such thing as bad publicity. Your hair looks good.” – Teresa Petrillo

52:) “Let me tell you something. There is no nobility in poverty. I have been a rich man and I have been a poor man. And I choose rich every fucking time. Because at least as a rich man, when I have to face my problems, I show up in the back of a limo, wearing a $, suit and a $, gold fucking watch!” – Jordan Belfort

53:) “You be ferocious, you be relentless, you be telephone fucking terrorists.” – Jordan Belfort

54:) “He only thing standing between you and your goal is the bulls**t story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” – Jordan Belfort

55:) “OK, the first rule of Wall Street – Nobody – and I don’t care if you’re Warren Buffet or Jimmy Buffet – nobody knows if a stock’s going up, down or f-ing sideways, least of all stockbrokers. But we have to pretend we know.” – Mark Hanna

56:) “Let me give you a little legal advice shut the f**k up!” – Jordan Belfort

57:) “You show me a pay stub for $, I quit my job right now and work for you.” – Jordan Belfort

58:) “How’s being sober?” “it f**kin’ sucks.” – Jordan Belfort

59:) “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 learned enough. Do it differently each time. One day, you will do it right. Failure is your friend.” – Jordan Belfort

60:) “Fugayzi, fugazi. It’s whazy. It’s a woozie. Its fairy dust. It doesn’t exist. It’s never landed. It is no matter. It’s not on the elemental chart. It’s not fucking real.” – Mark Hanna

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The Wolf of Wall Street quotes sell me this pen

61:) “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.” – Jordan Belfort

62:) “Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that intentions.” – Jordan Belfort

63:) “I’ve got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?” – Jordan Belfort

64:) “Always keep the client on the Ferris wheel”. – Mark Hanna

65:) “Look, man. A lot of having a kid or whatever takes the risk, whether you’re fuckin’ cousins or not, you know.” – Donnie Azoff

66:) “How many times a week you jerk off?” – Jordan Belfort

67:) “Still, give them to me young, hungry, and stupid. And in no time, I will make them rich.” – Jordan Belfort

68:) “I’m not fucking leaving! The show goes on!” – Jordan Belfort

69:) “Victor was Chinese by birth and Jewish by injection, having been raised amid the most savage young Jews anywhere on Long Island, the towns of Jericho and Syosset.” – Jordan Belfort

70:) “Work until your bank account looks like a phone number.” – Jordan Belfort

Jordan Belfort Famous quotes

71:) “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

72:) “There’s no nobility in poverty.” – Jordan Belfort

73:) “Inside the restaurant young Strattonites carried on their time-honored tradition of acting like packs of untamed wolves.” – Jordan Belfort

74:) “Implosions are ugly. Pop off to the bathroom, work one out any time you can. When you get really good at it, you’ll fucking be stroking and you’ll be thinking about money.” – Mark Hanna

75:) “At least as a rich man when I have to face my problems I show up at the back of a limo wearing a $, suit and a $, gold fucking watch.” – Jordan Belfort

76:) “My killers, my killers who will not take ‘No’ for an answer. My fucking warriors, who will not hang up the phone till their client either buy. Or fucking dies!” – Jordan Belfort

77:) “My warriors, who won’t take ‘No’ for an answer. Who won’t hang up the phone till their client either buys? Or fucking dies!” – Jordan Belfort

78:) “Just like that I made two grand, the other guys looked at me like I just discovered fire.” – Jordan Belfort

79:) “It was obscene, in the real world. But who the fuck wanted to live there?” – Jordan Belfort

80:) “They’re gonna need a fucking wrecking ball to take me out of here. They’re gonna need to send in the National Guard or fucking swat team, cause I ain’t going nowhere!” – Jordan Belfort