Watch This Jordan Belfort Book Review

Overview

Jordan Belfort is better known as The Wolf of Wall Street, due to his preceeding work, life style, publications and now his films, born in 1962 Jordan was the son of accountants, Max and Lear Belfort. Jordan is renowned for founding a stock broking firm on Wall Street during the 1990s, Stratton Oakmont, nevertheless, Jordan's business was based on Long Island not Wall Street. Jordan's sales pitch combined with the conviction to become famous and rich, lead him to found Stratton Oakmont, the brokerage company sold unsuspicious investors valueless stocks then left them in the dark when those investments crashed. This venture resulted in him serving twenty-two months in prison, and paying compensation to those he conned. While running Stratton Oakmont, he made over $1 billion dollars from the over 1,000 loyal employees he contracted to do the penny stocks sales to investors. Both he and his staff became wealthy quickly, and enjoyed the trappings of their success; taking drugs and partying non stop.

Ventures After Prison

Publications

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 time after a conviction of selling drug paraphernalia online. Tommy inspired Jordan to make his life's story a book, after listening much of what went down. Belfort's two publications; The Wolf of Wall Street and Catching the Wolf of Wall Street, have make him a mulit millionaire. As well as the publications, one of his titles has been adapted into a film with the same name, The Wall Street Wolf, starring Matthew McConaughey and Leonardo Dicaprio.

Business motivational talks

Suffice to say, Jordan Belfort possessed the drive, will power and brains to earn profits and spend it in the manner he chose. While his methods landed him in prison, now he is a legitimate businessman, who says he learned from his errors and is a reformed character. He travels around the world offering business motivational talks to young business people as well as gurus in the industry. He earns around $30,000 from each speech, a small 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.

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. Following his fast rise to wealth, and quick spending, along with his prison sentence and rehabilitation, Belfort learned important lessons, which he currently travels 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. Check this out visit the site