Jordan Belfort quotes:

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Don't follow the path. Blaze the trail.

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • There's no nobility in poverty.

  • 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?

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

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

  • Money doesn't just buy you a better life, better food, better cars, better pussy "? it also makes you a better person.

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

  • You grow stronger from failure than you do from success.

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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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