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.

There's no nobility in poverty.

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

There’s no way to succeed in business without the highest ethical standards.

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.

You grow stronger from failure than you do from success.