Jordan Belfort famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty
-- Jordan Belfort

#Risk #Safe #Poverty
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

#Success #Believe #Mind
When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.
-- Jordan Belfort

#Motivational #Success #Empowering
The story that you tell yourself is exactly what holds you back from being successful.
-- Jordan Belfort

#Successful #Stories #Being Successful
Don't follow the path. Blaze the trail.
-- Jordan Belfort

#Path #Trails
Winners use words that say 'must' and 'will'.
-- Jordan Belfort

#Success #Use #Winner
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

#Success #Past #Matter
If you give people a good enough 'why', they will always figure out the 'how'.
-- Jordan Belfort

#Success #People #Giving
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

#Success #Giving #Want
Whether you say, 'I can' or 'I can't,' you're right either way.
-- Jordan Belfort

#Motivational #Way
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

#Motivational #Success #Perseverance
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 youâ€™ll have no choice but to do whatever it takes to succeed.
-- Jordan Belfort

#Giving #Choices #Want
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

#Success #Giving Up #Persistence
Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions.
-- Jordan Belfort

#World #Action #Intention
There's no nobility in poverty.
-- Jordan Belfort

#Poverty #Nobility
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.
-- Jordan Belfort

#Success #Men #People
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.
-- Jordan Belfort

#Queens #Wall #Years
Thereâ€™s no way to succeed in business without the highest ethical standards.
-- Jordan Belfort

#Way #Succeed #Ethical
No one hangs up the phone until the customer buys or dies.
-- Jordan Belfort

#Phones
You are not the mistakes of your past, but the resources and capabilities that you have gleaned from your past.
-- Jordan Belfort

#Mistake #Past #Resources
Don't hang up until the client either buys or dies.
-- Jordan Belfort

#Clients
I do not come from a rich family, but I come from a really good family.
-- Jordan Belfort

#Good Family #Rich
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 itâ€™s the equivalent of the average American spending twenty dollars on something, right?
-- Jordan Belfort

#Average #Twenties #Dollars
There's only 1 way to get rich, quick! But not through a get rich quick scheme. There's a difference.
-- Jordan Belfort

#Differences #Way #Rich
You donâ€™t choose who you fall in love with, do you? And once you do fall in loveâ€”that obsessive sort of love, that all-consuming love, where two people canâ€™t stand to be apart from each other for even a momentâ€”how are you supposed to let a love like that pass you by?
-- Jordan Belfort

#Falling In Love #Two #People
The year I turned 26 I made $49 million, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.
-- Jordan Belfort

#Years #Three #Shy
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

#Book #Needs #Attention
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

#Needs #Way

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