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, however, Jordan's company was based on Long Island not Wall Street. His sales methods, and his crave to become famous and rich, led him to found Stratton Oakmont; which was a firm that sold inexperienced investors valueless stocks, and deserted them once the stocks plummeted. This affair made him serve a 22-month jail term and restitution 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. Both he and his staff became wealthy quickly, and enjoyed the trappings of their success; taking drugs and partying non stop.
Activities after jail
Books
While serving his purportedly 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 hearing much of what went down in Jordan's life. Jordan penned two books; The Wolf of Wall Street and Catching the Wolf of Wall Street, these books have earned Jordan many 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.
Speaking at Business Events
No one can deny that Jordan is a clever man, he had the drive 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. Jordan travels the world giving motivational business talks to budding entrepreneurs and industrial gurus. He earns around $30,000 from each speech, a modest sum in comparison with his earnings from Stratton Oakmont, but he has successfully inspired many business-oriented people on good, honorable 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.
Conclusion
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. Jordan became rich quickly, he spend money like it was water, he attended jail and rehabilitation, however, Jordan learned a valuable lesson in life, and he now travels around the world to teach. He shows people how to surmount their obstacles and take ethical business choices, which spares others from suffering the hardship his actions caused in the past.
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, however, Jordan's company was based on Long Island not Wall Street. His sales methods, and his crave to become famous and rich, led him to found Stratton Oakmont; which was a firm that sold inexperienced investors valueless stocks, and deserted them once the stocks plummeted. This affair made him serve a 22-month jail term and restitution 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. Both he and his staff became wealthy quickly, and enjoyed the trappings of their success; taking drugs and partying non stop.
Activities after jail
Books
While serving his purportedly 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 hearing much of what went down in Jordan's life. Jordan penned two books; The Wolf of Wall Street and Catching the Wolf of Wall Street, these books have earned Jordan many 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.
Speaking at Business Events
No one can deny that Jordan is a clever man, he had the drive 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. Jordan travels the world giving motivational business talks to budding entrepreneurs and industrial gurus. He earns around $30,000 from each speech, a modest sum in comparison with his earnings from Stratton Oakmont, but he has successfully inspired many business-oriented people on good, honorable 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.
Conclusion
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. Jordan became rich quickly, he spend money like it was water, he attended jail and rehabilitation, however, Jordan learned a valuable lesson in life, and he now travels around the world to teach. He shows people how to surmount their obstacles and take ethical business choices, which spares others from suffering the hardship his actions caused in the past.
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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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