There's no nobility in poverty.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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