Jordan Belfort

But I realized in that moment that if I worked harder than everybody else and I'm willing to do what everyone else was not willing to do, I could make just like, you know, so, and it became a very, it became a cornerstone belief in my mind.

A, that I'm the hardest worker.

B, that I'll do whatever it takes.

C, I'm an entrepreneur.

You get it?

So I had these beliefs that were so strong that I did this job for five years, right?

And then I put myself through college and sold ices all through college and drove a nice car, had money in my pocket, right?

So that was the start of it, okay, is these beliefs.

Then let's miss the middle of my life for a second.

Let's go to jail now.

So I already have this rise and fall, right?

But I'm that guy.

I'm still that kid that did that at 16.

I never got in trouble in my life before Scranton or after Scranton.

There's one thing I did.

I was like, I came from the best family ever.

No one ever got in trouble, right?

So I had these beliefs about money and success and hard work, right?

And that if I do the right thing, I make money, right?

Or I have success, right?