Best 93 Wolf Of Wall Street Quotes: Sales, Money, Stock, Love and More

If you have no desire for money, you might take a look at The Wolf of Wall Street. If you have no motivation for work, you might as well watch The Wolf of Wall Street. If you have no appetite for sex, you might as well watch it. Here I collected 93 best Wolf of Wall Street quotes for you to have a quick understanding of this movie.

The Wolf of Wall Street is full of money, sales, stock, sex, drug, desire, and evil. The most greedy side of people is completely exposed in our vision. Even if they (Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio), Matthew Mcconaughey (Mark Hanna), Donnie Azoff (Jonah Hill) are not recognized, they still go their own way, because in their eyes, money is exactly what they want.

Best Wolf Of Wall Street Motivational & Inspirational Quotes

1#. “I had to do something to stand out, right, sir?”  

2#. “It’s business, leave your emotions at the door.”

3#. “Risk is what keeps us young.”

4#. “I want you to deal with your problems by becoming rich!”

5#. “When the window of opportunity opens, that’s when you work twice as hard.” 

6#. “Let me tell you something. There is no nobility in poverty.”

7#. “Work until your bank account looks like a phone number.” 

8#. “97% of the people who quit too soon are employed by the 3% who never gave up.” 

9#. “Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions.”

10#. “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.”

11#. “Pay close attention to people who don’t clap when you win.” 

12#. “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.”

13#. “John, one thing I can promise you, even in this market, 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.”   

14#. “Whether you say, ‘I can’ or ‘I can’t,’ you’re right either way.”

15#. “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.”   

16#. “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.”

17#. “You don’t choose who you fall in love with, do you? And once you do fall in love – that obsessive sort of love, that all-consuming love, where two people can’t stand to be apart from each other for even a moment – how are you supposed to let a love like that pass you by?”

Wolf of Wall Street Famous Money Quotes

Jordan believed in money too much. Money changed his life and enabled him chose a more beautiful wife and a loyal partner. However, he never doubted why his second wife loved him, and why Donnie resigned from the job and followed him. Jordan reflects many of the distorted values ​​of society.

18#. “Do you guys not want to make money?”

19#. “Yeah, that’s right, money is the greatest single problem-solver known to man.”  

20#. “If money isn’t everything, work at McDonald’s.” 

21#. “You wanna know what money sounds like? Go to a trading floor on Wall Street.”  

22#. “Money is the oxygen of capitalism and I wanna breathe more than any man alive.” 

23#. “You see, money doesn’t just buy you a better life, better food, better cars, better women, it makes you actually a better person. You can give generously to your church or political party of your choice.”    

24#. “Money is the tool, my child, not the mason; it can help you make acquaintances but not true friends; and it might buy you a life of leisure but not a life of peace.”

25#. “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?” 

Wolf of Wall Street Stock Quotes

26#. “So if I sell a stock at $10,000, my commission is 5,000 bucks.”

27#. “People don’t buy stock; it gets sold to them. Don’t ever forget that.” 

28#. “Hello, John. How are you doing today? You mailed my company a postcard a few weeks back, requesting information on penny stocks that had huge upside potential with very few downside risks. Does that ring a bell?”

29#. “Now, right now, John, the stock trades over the counter at ten cents a share. And by the way, John, our analyst indicates it could go a heck of a lot higher than that. Your profit, on a mere six thousand dollar investment, would be upwards of sixty thousand dollars.”  

30#. “See what I’m saying. He’s creating urgency by getting them to want to buy the stock. He gets them to think it’s something that they need. You know what I mean?”    

31#. “But rich people don’t buy penny stocks, they just don’t. Because they’re too smart, that’s why not.“  

32#. “Nobody knows if a stock’s going up, down or f***ing sideways, least of all stockbrokers. But we have to pretend we know.”   

33#. “Number one rule of Wall Street. Nobody…and I don’t care if you’re Warren Buffet or if you’re Jimmy Buffet – nobody knows if a stock is going to go up, down, sideways or in circles. You know what a fugazi is?”

34#. “So if you got a client who bought the stock at eight, and it now sits at sixteen, and he’s all f**king happy, he wants to cash it and liquidate and take his f**king money and run home. You don’t let him do that.”

35#. “No, what do you do? You get another brilliant idea, a special idea. Another situation, another stock to reinvest his earnings and then some. And he will, every single time.”

Wolf of Wall Street Jordan Belfort Quotes

In the movie, Jordan is a man who only wants to make money, played by Leonardo DiCaprio. In his early 20s, he set foot in the stock market and worked for Rothschild on Wall Street. This can be called his starting point as a stockbroker. He is like a sponge, learning and absorbing everything. With hardworking and sales talent, soon he becomes rich.

“Stock, Buy! Buy! Buy! Do you want to withdraw cash? Impossible! Your money will always be illusory, no one except you will care about that pile of illusory numbers. And what our stockbrokers get is real gold and silver.” People’s greed for money is endless. More and more people are willing to fall into his trap, and more and more people are attracted by his selling methods.

36#. “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.”

37#. “Unbelievable. My first sh*tty day as a broker. Within a month, L.F. Rothschild, an institution since 1899, closed its doors. Wall Street had swallowed me up and sh*t me right back out again.”

38#. “The Wolf strikes again!”

39#. “Winners use words that say ‘must’ and ‘will’.” 

40#. “If you give people a good enough ‘why’, they will always figure out the how.” 

41#. “Don’t worry about it. I told you, what I’m doing is completely legal.”

42#. “Oh come on, baby. I haven’t made love to you in so long.” 

43#. “Fall in love with the person who enjoys your madness, not an idiot who forces you to be normal.”

44#. “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.” 

45#. “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.”

46#. “Every person around here, they want to get rich and they want to get rich quickly. They all want something for nothing.”   

47#. “Rule number one: f**k what they think.”

48#. “You can watch me, mock me, try to block me but you cannot stop me.” 

49#. “When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.”

50#. “I will not die sober!”

51#. “This right here is the land of opportunity. This is America. This is my home! The show goes on! They’re gonna need to send in the National Guard to take me out, because I am not going nowhere!”

52#. “They were drunk on youth, fueled by greed, and higher than kites.” 

53#. “After all, guilt and remorse were worthless emotions, weren’t they? Well, I knew they weren’t; but I had no time for them.  

54#. “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.”  

55#. “The nice thing about being rescued by Italians is that they feed you, make you drink red wine, then you get to dance.”  

56#. “Just like that I made two grand, the other guys looked at me like I just discovered fire.”   

57#. “Give them to me young, hungry and stupid – and in no time I will make them rich.”  

47#. “I’m not talking about Buddhists or Amish. I’m talking about normal people, working-class everyday people. Everyone wants to get rich. Am I crazy?”  

58#. “Act as if you have unmatched experience and then people will follow your advice. And act as if you are already a tremendous success, and as sure as I stand here today – you will become successful.”      

59#. “I’m constantly asking myself questions. And the problem with that is that your brain is like a computer. If you ask a question, it’s programmed to respond, whether there’s an answer or not. I’m constantly weighing everything in my mind and trying to predict how my actions will influence events. Or maybe manipulate events are the more appropriate words. It’s like playing a game of chess with your own life.” 

60#. “I’ve got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live ?”   

61#. “In retrospect, I remember feeling somewhat relieved – that the chaos and insanity would finally be behind me.” 

62#. “I’m sober for two years, stopped my drugs, settled down with my wife and kids, and then this happens! ”   

63#. “On a daily basis, I consume enough drugs to sedate Manhattan, Long Island, and Queens for a month.”

64#. “The way I looked at it, their money was better off in my pocket. I knew how to spend it better.” 

Wolf of Wall Street Sales Quotes

Jordan is a sales talent. He can talk with different audiences from different angles. Every time Jordan is on sale, he has a lot of physical expressions while speaking whether on the phone or face to face with customers. At the same time, the emphasis tone will be put in important words.

Know What Customers Want

When facing a customer, the psychological activity of the customer is “want to make money”, and the angle he cuts in is “how much money can I bring to you”.

“I just saw a stock, this is the best one I have seen in half a year. You only need to spend 6,000 investment, you can get 60,000!”

When talking about the keywords “best” and “60,000”, it is not only his tone of emphasis, but also other auxiliary actions such as clapping hands or raising the head in body language. Because through the phone, the person on the other end can imagine the posture of the speaker by feeling.

Supply and Demand Relationship

What will you do or say the selling points when you need to sell a pen, like Jordan Belfort in the movie?

1. Is this pen have a good-looking?
2. Is this a pen with superior performance?
3. Is this pen used by a famous person?

This movie tells us: the relationship between supply and demand. For example:

A: “HI~Can you sign your name in my book?”

B: “Oh~ but I don’t have a pen.”

A: “Ah~ I happen to have one here.”

YES! Everything is done.

There is a need and there is supply, so Jordan Belfort will succeed. Regardless of what he does, the relationship between supply and demand can be applied to all commercial sales, which is the essence of sales.

65#. “sell me this pen.”

66#. “Hard work beats talent every time.”

67#. “With this script, I’ll teach each and every one of you to be the best.” 

68#. “My warriors, who won’t take a no for an answer, who won’t hang up the phone till their client either buys – or f**king dies.” 

69#. “But if you can make the clients money at the same time, it’s advantageous to everyone, correct?”

70#. “The best way to sell something: don’t sell anything. Earn awareness, respect and trust of those who might buy.”   

71#. “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.”

72#. “Always keep the client on the Ferris wheel.” 

73#. “So you listen to me and you listen well. Are you behind on your credit card bills? Good, pick up the phone and start dialing! Is your landlord ready to evict you? Good! Pick up the phone and start dialing! Does your girlfriend think you’re a fucking worthless loser? Good! Pick up the phone and start dialing! I want you to deal with your problems by becoming rich!”

74#. “Okay, great. Well, the reason for the call today, John, is something just came across my desk, John. It is perhaps the best thing I’ve seen in the last six months. If you have sixty seconds I’d like to share the idea with you, you got a minute?” 

75#. “Four thousand? That’d be forty thousand shares, John. Let me lock in that trade right now and get back to you with my secretary with an exact confirmation. Sound good, John?”  

76#. “I was selling garbage to garbage men, and making cash hand over fist.” “The only problem you’re going to have is that you didn’t buy more.” 

77#. “You listening? It’s easier than you think. Every person you’re on the phone with, they want to get rich and they want to get rich quickly. They all want something for nothing.” 

78#. “I mean, what person with a college education would trust this bunch of jerk-offs. But what if they didn’t sound like a bunch of jerk-offs? What if I could teach them how to sell to the people with money? Real money. So I decided to reinvent the company.” 

79#. “Listen to me. We’re a new company with a new name. A company that our clients can believe in. A company that our clients can trust. A firm whose roots are so deeply embedded to Wall Street! You got it?”

Wolf of Wall Street Matthew Mcconaughey Quotes

80#. “It’s his first day on Wall Street. Give him time.”

81#. “The name of the game, moving the money from the client’s pocket to your pocket.”

82#. ” The second key to success in this racket is this little baby right here. It’s called cocaine. It’ll keep you sharp between the ears. It’ll also help your fingers dial faster. And guess what? That’s good for me.“

83#. “There are two keys to success in the broker business; first of all you gotta stay relaxed, secondly you gotta always stay high.” 

84#. ”Because they’re f**king addicted. And then you just keep doing this, again, and again, and again. Meanwhile, he thinks he’s getting sh*t rich, which he is, on paper. But you and me, the brokers?“  

Wolf of Wall Street Margot Robbie Quotes

85#.  “Don’t you fucking Duchess me! Don’t you Duchess me! Do you really think that I don’t know what you’re up to? You’re a father now, Jordan.” 

86#. “You were calling her name in your sleep!”

87#. “I don’t love you anymore, Jordan! I want a divorce.”  

88#. “Look at yourself, Jordan. You’re sick! You’re a sick man!”

89#. “Daddy shouldn’t waste his time. And from now on… it’s gonna be nothing but short, short skirts around the house. And you know something else, Daddy? Mommy is just so sick and tired of wearing panties.”  

The character of Naomi Lapaglia was played by Margot Robbie, the lady who also acted as Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad. Here are the Harley Quinn Quotes.

Wolf of Wall Street Donnie Azoff Quotes

This supporting role, the guy who always shows big white teeth, is also a money fanatic chaser. He walks in the gray area on the edge of the law with Jordan. Money is also his first goal to do everything.

90#. “You Show Me A Pay Stub For $72,000, I Quit My Job Right Now And Work For You.”      

91#.  “How’s being sober?”   

92#.  “I’ll tell you what, I’m never eating at Benihana again. I don’t care whose birthday it is.”  

93#.  “I can’t go down there! It’s flooded! It’s three feet of water down there!”   

Final Thought

When Jordan was out of prison, he can still live a good life by teaching sales skills. In the face of such an economic criminal, there is no contempt in audiences’ eyes, only admiration. Audiences look at him with greedy and hopeful eyes, hoping he can teach them how to get more money…

Your belief may determine your lifestyle and pursuit. If you attribute your time to your beliefs, your chances of success will be limitless.

Hope you enjoy these Wolf of Wall Street Quotes.

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