Discover the top 50 iconic quotes from the 2013 blockbuster “The Wolf of Wall Street.” Relive the memorable moments and timeless wisdom from this Martin Scorsese masterpiece. Engage with the wit, humor, and insight that made these quotes unforgettable.
The Wolf of Wall Street Quotes
1. “It’s business. Leave your emotions at the door.” – Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
2. “97% of the people who quit too soon are employed by the 3% who didn’t.” – Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
3. “Best way to sell something: don’t sell anything. Earn awareness, respect and trust of those who might buy.” – Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
4. “Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions.” – Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
5. “People don’t buy stock; it gets sold to them. Don’t ever forget that.” – Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
6. “See those little black boxes? They’re called telephones. I’m gonna let you in on a little secret about these telephones. They’re not gonna dial themselves. Okay? Without you, they’re just worthless hunks of plastic. Like a loaded M16 without a trained Marine to pull the trigger.” – Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
7. “One thing I can promise you is that I never ask my clients to judge me on my winners, I ask them to judge me on my losers because I have so few.” – Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
8. “Just like that I made two grand, the other guys looked at me like I just discovered fire.” – Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
9. “Every person around here, they want to get rich and they want to get rich quickly. They all want something for nothing.” – Jordan Belfort,‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
10. “Was all this legal? Absolutely not but we were making more money then we knew what to do with.” – Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
11. “I don’t think you’re cut out for this job. You look like a kid, and Wall Street’s no place for kids. It’s a place for killers. A place for mercenaries. So in that sense you’re lucky I’m not the one who does the hiring around here.” ― Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
12. “They’re gonna need a f*cking wrecking ball to take me out of here. They’re gonna need to send in the national guard or fucking swat team, cause I ain’t going nowhere!” – Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
13. “Sell me this pen!” – Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
14. “They were drunk on youth, fueled by greed, and higher than kites.” – Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
15. “There were certain things that you just didn’t joke about; it was simply bad luck. It was like pissing in the fate god’s eye. If you did it long enough, he was certain to piss right back at you. And his urine stream was like a fucking fire hose.” – Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
16. “The nice thing about being rescued by Italians is that they feed you, make you drink red wine, then you get to dance.” – Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
17. “On a daily basis, I consume enough drugs to sedate Manhattan, Long Island, and Queens for a month.” – Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
18. “If anyone over here thinks I’m superficial or materialistic, go get a job at McDonald’s because that’s where you belong.” – Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
19. “I want you to deal with your problems by becoming rich!” – Jordan Belfort , ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
20. “I believe in total immersion, if you want to be rich, you have to program your mind to be rich. You have to unlearn all the thoughts that were making you poor and replace them with new thoughts – rich thoughts.” – Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
21. “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.” – Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
22. “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?” ― Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
23. “Money is the oxygen of capitalism and I wanna breathe more than any man alive.” – Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
24. “There is no nobility in poverty.” – Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
25. “My name is Jordan Belfort. 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.” – Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
26. “You wanna know what money sounds like? Go to a trading floor on Wall Street.” – Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
27. “I have been a rich man and I have been a poor man. And I choose rich every fucking time. Because at least as a rich man, when I have to face my problems, I show up in the back of a limo, wearing a $2,000 suit and a $40,000 gold fucking watch!” – Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
28. “Whether you say, ‘I can’ or ‘I can’t,’ you’re right either way.” – Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
29. “If you give people a good enough ‘why’, they will always figure out the how.” – Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
30. “Winners use words that say ‘must’ and ‘will’.” – Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
31. “When the window of opportunity open, that’s when you work twice as hard.” – Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
32. “I’ve got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?” – Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
33. “If you want to be rich, never give up. People tend to give up. If you have persistence, you will come out ahead of most people. More importantly, you will learn. When you do something, you might fail. But that’s not because you’re a failure. It’s because you have not learnt enough. Do it differently each time. One day, you will do it right. Failure is your friend.” – Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
34. “Hard work beats talent. Every time!” – Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
35. “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.” – Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
36. “When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.” – Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
37. “Successful people are 100% convinced that they are masters of their own destiny, they’re not creatures of circumstance, they create circumstance, if the circumstances around them suck they change them.” – Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
38. “Act as if! Act as if you’re a wealthy man, rich already, and then you’ll surely become rich. Act as if you have unmatched confidence and then people will surely have confidence in you.” – Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
39. “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.” – Jordan Belfort, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
40. “Risk is what keeps us young.” – Joanna Lumley, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
41. “Let me give you some legal advice: Shut the fuck up!” – Agent Patrick Denham, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
42. “I’ll tell you what: I’m never eating at Benihana again. I don’t care whose birthday it is.” – Donnie Azoff, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
43. “There are two keys to success in the broker business; first of all you gotta stay relaxed, secondly you gotta always get stay high.” – Mark Hanna, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
44. “Yeah, like Buddhists. They don’t give a shit about money. They’re wrapped in sheets. They’re not buying shit.” – Alden Kupferberg, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
45. “There was this one time I was selling pot to this Amish dude. You know those guys who got like the beard with, like, no mustache or some bullshit? Well, he says that he only wants to make furniture.” – Alden Kupferberg, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
46. “You got my money taped to your tits, honey. Technically, you do work for me.” – Donnie Azoff, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
47. “I can’t untie you! The captain tied you up, he almost fuckin’ tasered you!” – Donnie Azoff, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
48. “There is no such thing as bad publicity. Your hair looks good.” – Teresa Petrillo, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
49. “Fugayzi, fugazi. It’s a whazy. It’s a woozie. It’s fairy dust. it doesn’t exist. It’s never landed. It is no matter. It’s not on the elemental chart. It’s not fucking real.” – Mark Hanna, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
50. “The name of the game, moving the money from the client’s pocket to your pocket.” – Mark Hanna, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’.
