Introduction
Jordan Belfort, frequently called the Wolf of Wall Street, from his previous books, life-style, business and now movie, was born to accountant parents Max and Lear Belfort in 1962. Jordan is renowned for founding a stock broking firm on Wall Street during the 1990s, Stratton Oakmont, nevertheless, Jordan's company was based on Long Island not Wall Street. His sales methods, and his desire to become famous and rich, led him to found Stratton Oakmont; which was a firm that sold untrained investors valueless stocks, and deserted them once the stocks plummeted. This business made him serve a 22-month jail term and damages payments to the people he defrauded. When running Stratton Oakmont, Jordan made in excess of $1 billion dollars via a number of loyal workers he had hired to carry out penny stock sales to prospective investors. Him and his employees got rich fast and lived on the fast lane of life, partying hard and abusing drugs.
Activities after jail
Books
While serving his supposedly 4 years jail term, which became only 22 months after collaborating with the authorities on his case, Jordan was lucky, or otherwise, to share a jail room with Tommy Chong, serving his 9 months sentence after a sentence of selling drug paraphernalia online. Tommy inspired Jordan to make his life's story a book, after listening much of what went down in Jordan's life. Jordan wrote two books, The Wolf of Wall Street and Catching the Wolf of Wall Street, which have earned him millions of dollars. As well as the publications, one of his titles has been adapted into a film with the same name, The Wolf of Wall Street, starring Matthew McConaughey and Leonardo Dicaprio.
Business motivational talks
No one can deny that Jordan is a bright man, he had the determination and the will to make his luck and spent the cash as he saw fit. Although, his tactics landed him in jail, he, now a self-proclaimed businessman, says he learnt from his mistakes and has reformed. He travels across the globe, giving business speeches to young entrepreneurs, along with industry gurus. He earns around $30,000 from each speech, a low sum in comparison with his earnings from Stratton Oakmont, but he has successfully inspired many business-oriented people on good, ethical ways of making large sums of money. In a world that focuses and cares more on getting rich, and not on the means, Jordan Belfort feels obliged to teach individuals and corporates ethical ways of making money so that the riches and or means to those riches do not land other people into trouble as they did him.
Summary
Jordan Belfort made fast millions of dollars with his fraudulent stock brokerage firm, Stratton Oakmont in the 1990s, but paid dearly for it, serving 22 months in jail and ordered to make over $110 million in restitution. From his quick rise to riches, and fast spending, as well as jail term and rehab, Jordan learnt valuable lessons, which he, now, travels around the world teaching. He capacity builds people to overcome their obstacles and make ethical business decisions, to save others from the suffering his actions inflicted on others.
Jordan Belfort, frequently called the Wolf of Wall Street, from his previous books, life-style, business and now movie, was born to accountant parents Max and Lear Belfort in 1962. Jordan is renowned for founding a stock broking firm on Wall Street during the 1990s, Stratton Oakmont, nevertheless, Jordan's company was based on Long Island not Wall Street. His sales methods, and his desire to become famous and rich, led him to found Stratton Oakmont; which was a firm that sold untrained investors valueless stocks, and deserted them once the stocks plummeted. This business made him serve a 22-month jail term and damages payments to the people he defrauded. When running Stratton Oakmont, Jordan made in excess of $1 billion dollars via a number of loyal workers he had hired to carry out penny stock sales to prospective investors. Him and his employees got rich fast and lived on the fast lane of life, partying hard and abusing drugs.
Activities after jail
Books
While serving his supposedly 4 years jail term, which became only 22 months after collaborating with the authorities on his case, Jordan was lucky, or otherwise, to share a jail room with Tommy Chong, serving his 9 months sentence after a sentence of selling drug paraphernalia online. Tommy inspired Jordan to make his life's story a book, after listening much of what went down in Jordan's life. Jordan wrote two books, The Wolf of Wall Street and Catching the Wolf of Wall Street, which have earned him millions of dollars. As well as the publications, one of his titles has been adapted into a film with the same name, The Wolf of Wall Street, starring Matthew McConaughey and Leonardo Dicaprio.
Business motivational talks
No one can deny that Jordan is a bright man, he had the determination and the will to make his luck and spent the cash as he saw fit. Although, his tactics landed him in jail, he, now a self-proclaimed businessman, says he learnt from his mistakes and has reformed. He travels across the globe, giving business speeches to young entrepreneurs, along with industry gurus. He earns around $30,000 from each speech, a low sum in comparison with his earnings from Stratton Oakmont, but he has successfully inspired many business-oriented people on good, ethical ways of making large sums of money. In a world that focuses and cares more on getting rich, and not on the means, Jordan Belfort feels obliged to teach individuals and corporates ethical ways of making money so that the riches and or means to those riches do not land other people into trouble as they did him.
Summary
Jordan Belfort made fast millions of dollars with his fraudulent stock brokerage firm, Stratton Oakmont in the 1990s, but paid dearly for it, serving 22 months in jail and ordered to make over $110 million in restitution. From his quick rise to riches, and fast spending, as well as jail term and rehab, Jordan learnt valuable lessons, which he, now, travels around the world teaching. He capacity builds people to overcome their obstacles and make ethical business decisions, to save others from the suffering his actions inflicted on others.
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The Wolf of Wall Street, the story of a multi millionaire convicted, sent to prison for fraud and rebuilt from scratch to make millions again.
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