Overview
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 corporation was based on Long Island not Wall Street. His sales methods, and his passion to become famous and rich, led him to create 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 damages payments to the people he defrauded. Whilst operating Stratton Oakmont, he earned more than one billion dollars, with the help of over one-thousand loyal staff he hired to sell penny stocks to investors. Jordan and his workforce got rich quickly, they lived life in the fast lane, abusing drugs and partying hard.
Activity after Jail
Books
While serving his purportedly 4 years jail term, which became only 22 months after collaborating with the government on his case, Jordan was lucky, or otherwise, to share a jail room with Tommy Chong, serving his 9 months time 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 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 bright man, he had the energy and the will to make his luck and spent the cash as he saw fit. While, 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 low sum in comparison with his earnings from Stratton Oakmont, but he has successfully inspired many business-oriented people on good, honourable ways of making large sums of money. In the modern world, the emphasis is on becoming wealthy, regardless of the methods, thus Jordan Belfort feels obligated to educate corporations and individuals about ethical business methods, so that the profits and the methods the profit is made does not get other people in trouble with the law, like they did with him.
Conclusion
Jordan Belfort managed to make millions of dollars running his crooked stock brokerage company, Stratton Oakmont, during the 1990s, but Jordan paid a heavy price for his wrongdoing; he served a 22 month jail term and was ordered to repay in excess of $110 million. 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 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 corporation was based on Long Island not Wall Street. His sales methods, and his passion to become famous and rich, led him to create 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 damages payments to the people he defrauded. Whilst operating Stratton Oakmont, he earned more than one billion dollars, with the help of over one-thousand loyal staff he hired to sell penny stocks to investors. Jordan and his workforce got rich quickly, they lived life in the fast lane, abusing drugs and partying hard.
Activity after Jail
Books
While serving his purportedly 4 years jail term, which became only 22 months after collaborating with the government on his case, Jordan was lucky, or otherwise, to share a jail room with Tommy Chong, serving his 9 months time 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 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 bright man, he had the energy and the will to make his luck and spent the cash as he saw fit. While, 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 low sum in comparison with his earnings from Stratton Oakmont, but he has successfully inspired many business-oriented people on good, honourable ways of making large sums of money. In the modern world, the emphasis is on becoming wealthy, regardless of the methods, thus Jordan Belfort feels obligated to educate corporations and individuals about ethical business methods, so that the profits and the methods the profit is made does not get other people in trouble with the law, like they did with him.
Conclusion
Jordan Belfort managed to make millions of dollars running his crooked stock brokerage company, Stratton Oakmont, during the 1990s, but Jordan paid a heavy price for his wrongdoing; he served a 22 month jail term and was ordered to repay in excess of $110 million. 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 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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