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

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

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?

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.

Don't follow the path. Blaze the trail.

There's no nobility in poverty.

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.