Jordan Belfort was born in New York City in 1962. He was a successful stockbroker from the age of 22 until his arrest for securities fraud in 1993. He co-founded Stratton Oakmont, a brokerage firm that became notorious for its success and excesses, including corruption, drugs, sex parties, threats, intimidation, and violence.
Belfort later had to pay $110 million as part of a settlement with the SEC while sentenced to 22 years in prison. After serving three years in prison, he wrote a book about his experiences called ‘Wolf Of Wall Street.’
He was raised in a middle-class family in Newton, Massachusetts. His father was an alcoholic who often beat his mother. Belfort attended Harvard University, where he played soccer before transferring to Tufts University to play lacrosse as a walk-on player for the team that would later win the NCAA Lacrosse Championship twice.
Jordan Belfort is an example of someone who could turn a personal tragedy into a successful career. He inspired many people to go into the world of entrepreneurship.
His quotes will push you to focus on taking action & work hard towards your dreams. They also teach us that sometimes you have to tell yourself that it’s okay not to be perfect but good enough.
41 Most Inspiring Jordan Belfort Quotes On Success
“Dream stompers are people who want to stomp on your hopes and dreams. Lose their phone numbers.” ― Jordan Belfort
“Whether you say ‘I can’ or ‘I can’t’ you’re right either way.” ― Jordan Belfort
“Don’t follow the path. Blaze the trail.” ― 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
“The story that you tell yourself is exactly what holds you back from being successful.” ― Jordan Belfort
“If money isn’t everything work at McDonald’s.” ― Jordan Belfort
“There’s no way to succeed in business without the highest ethical standards.” ― Jordan Belfort
“There’s no nobility in poverty.” ― 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
“I want you to deal with your problems by becoming rich.” ― Jordan Belfort
“You grow stronger from failure than you do from success.” ― Jordan Belfort
“Best way to sell something: don’t sell anything. Earn awareness, respect and trust of those who might buy.” ― 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
“There’s only 1 way to get rich, quick! But not through a get rich quick scheme. There’s a difference.” ― 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
“If you try and fail, people will praise you for trying. If you fail to even try people will ignore you.” ― 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
“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
“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.” ― Jordan Belfort
“Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty.” ― 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.” ― Jordan Belfort
“Winners use words that say ‘must’ and ‘will’.” ― 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
“Whether you say, ‘I can’ or ‘I can’t,’ you’re right either way.” ― Jordan Belfort
“Average sucks.” ― Jordan Belfort
“If you give people a good enough ‘why’, they will always figure out the ‘how’.” ― Jordan Belfort
“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
“If you give people a good enough ‘why’, they will always figure out the how.” ― 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
“I’ve got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?” – Jordan Belfort
“The story you tell yourself is exactly what holds you back from being successful.” ― Jordan Belfort
“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.” ― Jordan Belfort
“Everything that has happened to you up to this point is irrelevant. It’s your past.” ― 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
“Whether you say, ‘I can’ or ‘I can’t,’ you’re right either way.” ― Jordan Belfort
“Create a vision that makes you wanna jump out of bed in the morning.” ― 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
“Have you got the guts to live?” Jordan Belfort
“Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions.” ― 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
“The only thing standing between you and your dream is the false story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” ― Jordan Belfort
