Jordan Belfort

Jordan Belfort:

The Wolf of Wall Street

“Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty.” Jordan Belfort said this. One of Belfort’s many powerful and inspiring quotes as a stockbroker. He is remembered as one of the most elaborate scammers of all time, one of the smartest thieves ever known, and one of the richest stockbrokers to touch Wall Street. Jordan not only influenced Wall Street but also opened the eyes of the whole world to penny stocks and highway robbery throughout the world.

Jordan Belfort gave the concept of stock brokering frauds a completely new meaning to Wall Street. He had several different styles of stealing his innocent investors’ money some of them legal and some of them not so legal. One of Belfort’s main

Then when everyone else buys it, you can sell it for a ton of profit. The Pump and Dump was Jordan's main source of wealth. He practiced this throughout his life at several different brokerage firms. Jordan has accumulated hundreds of millions of dollars off this tactic alone but now owes that in debt to his victims. The Steve Madden Pump and Dump was a very historic event in the stock market and one of the biggest frauds. Steve Madden was one of Danny Porush’s childhood friend. Danny was Jordan’s partner in crime and got all the charges Jordan did after the frauds took place. Stratton Oakmont was Jordan's very own brokerage firm and the origin of all of the frauds that took place. Stratton Oakmont started out as just Jordan and a bunch of friends selling scummy penny stocks to the lower to middle class. This went on for a long time until Jordan’s wife at the time told him she did not like him stealing money from people that do not have money to lose. Jordan then

Jordan had a strong drug and sex addiction during his time as a stockbroker but has overcome this and now preaches about getting past bad times like this. His drug addiction originated from his first boss that told him cocaine and other drugs were completely necessary for this industry. He then continued believing in this throughout his whole career and influenced many other people that worked for him to do similar drugs. He put an end to this after one day he physically harmed his wife and tried to take custody of his kid after his wife said she was divorcing him. Jordan has written many books to this date about his life, the bad things he has done, and his recovery process. The first book is about his life and the life of Stratton Oakmont, this is called The Wolf of Wall Street. The second is about him being caught by the police and him evading the police, this is called Catching the Wolf of Wall Street. He motivates millions of people through his speeches, books, and the movie he recently made about his