The year I turned 26, as the head of my own brokerage firm, I made $49 million, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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