Top 30 Jordan Belfort (The REAL Wolf of Wall Street) Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “There’s no nobility in poverty.”

— Jordan Belfort

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2. “Don’t follow the path. Blaze the trail.”

— Jordan Belfort

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3. “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

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4. “Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty.”

— Jordan Belfort

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

— Jordan Belfort

6. “You grow stronger from failure than you do from success.”

— Jordan Belfort

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

— Jordan Belfort

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8. “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

9. “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

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

— Jordan Belfort

11. “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

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

— Jordan Belfort

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

— Jordan Belfort

14. “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

15. “You need to see things as they are, not worse than they are, then see them better than they are, and make them that way.”

— Jordan Belfort

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

— Jordan Belfort

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

— Jordan Belfort

18. “Whether you say, ‘I can’ or ‘I can’t,’ you’re right either way.”

— Jordan Belfort

19. “There’s only 1 way to get rich, quick! But not through a get rich quick scheme. There’s a difference.”

— Jordan Belfort

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

— Jordan Belfort

21. “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

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

— Jordan Belfort

23. “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

24. “Act as if you’re a wealthy man, rich already, and you will become rich. Act as if you have unmatched confidence, and people will have confidence in you. Act as if you have all the answers, and the answers will come to you.”

— Jordan Belfort

25. “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

26. “Winners use words that say ‘must’ and ‘will’.”

— Jordan Belfort

27. “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

28. “People don’t buy stock; it gets sold to them. Don’t ever forget that.”

— Jordan Belfort

29. “But what was wrong with that? They were drunk on youth, fueled by greed, and higher than kites.”

— Jordan Belfort

30. “You do not want to try to resolve their pain at this point. In fact, if anything, you want to amplify that pain.”

— Jordan Belfort

31. “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

32. “Use power words, like “dramatically,” “explosive,” “fastest growing,” “most well respected.” Power words go a very long way to capturing someone’s attention and establishing yourself as an expert.”

— Jordan Belfort

33. “95 percent of the time, the common objections are merely ploys on the part of the prospect, who would rather bow out of the sale gracefully than have to look the salesperson in the eye and confront them about their lack of certainty concerning the Three Tens.”

— Jordan Belfort