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.

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?

You grow stronger from failure than you do from success.

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

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.

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.

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