Belfort Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The way you treat life, life will treat you back. Make sure you're happy with whatever is going on in your life.

Vitor Belfort

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Lutheran Reformation, from its inception in 1517 down to the Peasants' War of 1525, at once absorbed, and was absorbed by, all the revolutionary elements of the time.

Ernest Belfort Bax

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

Jordan Belfort

#7. 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

#8. Don't follow the path. Blaze the trail.

Jordan Belfort

#9. There's no nobility in poverty.

Jordan Belfort

#10. 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

#11. Two people make a crime, three make a conspiracy.

Belfort, Jordan

#12. I had considered changing my phone number, but I was so far behind on my phone bill that NYNEX was after me too.

Jordan Belfort

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

Jordan Belfort

#14. Inside the restaurant young Strattonites carried on their time-honored tradition of acting like packs of untamed wolves.

Jordan Belfort

#15. I've made mistakes but the beauty of life is that each regret builds character and makes us a better person

Vitor Belfort

#16. 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

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

Jordan Belfort

#18. They were drunk on youth, fueled by greed, and higher than kites.

Jordan Belfort

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

Jordan Belfort

#20. Money doesn't just buy you a better life, better food, better cars, better pussy - it also makes you a better person.

Jordan Belfort

#21. 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

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

Jordan Belfort

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

Jordan Belfort

#24. Arrogance needs advertising, confidence speaks for itself.

Vitor Belfort

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

Jordan Belfort

#26. Winners use words that say 'must' and 'will'.

Jordan Belfort

#27. The river makes the water flow. That's how I live. I just let everything flow. Flow with the river.

Vitor Belfort

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

Jordan Belfort

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

Jordan Belfort

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

Jordan Belfort

#31. 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

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

Jordan Belfort

#33. Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling someone a patriot will be the deepest insult.

Ernest Belfort Bax

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

Jordan Belfort

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

Jordan Belfort

#36. Beginnings are easy, the thing is to finish the race

Vitor Belfort

#37. 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

#38. I'm fighting myself every day to get better.

Vitor Belfort

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

Jordan Belfort

#40. And my wife ... well, I guess she'd earned her scene with me, but still; did she really have that much reason to be angry? I mean, when she married me she knew what she was getting into, didn't she? She had been my mistress, for Chrissake! That spoke volumes, didn't it?

Jordan Belfort

#41. [Aunt] Patricia smiled, and we walked in silence for a while. But it wasn't a poisonous silence. It was the sort of silence shared by two people who're comfortable enough not to force a conversation ahead of its logical progression. I found this woman's company to be incredibly soothing.

Jordan Belfort

#42. 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