32 Quotes by Jordan Belfort (The REAL Wolf of Wall Street)

There’s no nobility in poverty.

Don’t follow the path. Blaze the trail.

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.

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

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

You grow stronger from failure than you do from success.

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.

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.

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