The Wolf of Wall Street

by Jordan Belfort

obnoxious

grueling

diode

belligerent

oozing

People don’t buy stock; it gets sold to them. Don’t ever forget that.”

loaf

aback

imbibing?”

sleazoid

hedonism.

woozy.

ruckus.

dweeb

heinous?

prevalent

murky

dimwit.

seldom

stork.

wringer!

blunder.

gait.

Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions.”

money is the greatest single problem-solver known to man, and anyone who tries to tell you different is completely full of shit.

Give yourself no choice but to succeed. Let the consequences of failure become so dire and so unthinkable that you’ll have no choice but to do whatever it takes to succeed.

“And that’s why I say: Act as if! Act as if you’re a wealthy man, rich already, and then you’ll surely become rich. Act as if you have unmatched confidence and then people will surely have confidence in you. Act as if you have unmatched experience and then people will follow your advice. And act as if you are already a tremendous success, and as sure as I stand here today—you will become successful!

tawdry

premonition

suave

mollify

felony

egregious

fiend

dichotomy,

mason;

debilitating.

Every human being, after all, is possessed with the undeniable urge to confess his sins. Religions were built on such things. And kingdoms were conquered with the promise that all sins would be forgiven afterward.

duds

studs.

innocuous

jowls,

enthralled

nil.

athwart

albeit

kooky

inwardly,

unscathed.

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