Jordan Belfort Analysis

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Jordan Belfort: described as charismatic, confident, convincing. Jordan Belfort: described as crooked, corrupt, conniving; a multi-personalitied man who became rich off lying. Today I will inform you how one man could be described by such opposing characteristics, and how one man could singlehandedly manipulate the stock market. Jordan Belfort, a stockbroker on Wall Street, made millions of dollars by frauding investors. Belfort once told a reporter from The New York Post (2013), “It’s easier to get rich quick when you don’t follow the rules.” This is proven true by taking a mere glance at the rules Belfort broke in his life, including, criminal …show more content…

Belfort explained in his interview how he transformed “twelve talentless guys into world-class closers.” He taught them his own techniques, which lead to his business growing from 12 brokers to over 1,000 employees (Williams, 2014). There is little that can be done to prevent being schemed like Belfort’s victims were: on paper, every stock looked real. Eventually, Belfort’s swamp of lies sucked him under. Biography.com wrote that in 1992, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sought to end Stratton Oakmont's stock operation for defrauding investors and manipulating stock …show more content…

There is just no way to protect yourself from being lied to. The only way they could have prevented this would have been to simply trust no one. This shows the impact of Belfort’s crimes: he taught investors worldwide that trust does not exist. In prison, Belfort was inspired to write about his experiences. He soon published the book “The Wolf of Wall Street,” using one of his common nicknames as the title, exploring the rise and crash of his career in the financial world. The next year, he came out with “Catching the Wolf of Wall Street,” detailing what lead to his arrest and his life after. Half a decade after his first book, his story was launched through screenplay. In 2013, the movie “The Wolf of Wall Street” was released, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Belfort. After the huge success of the film, two years later, a song was written about the Wolf, titled “Jordan Belfort” by Wes Walker & Dyl (Jordan, 2014). As Biography.com explains, Belfort was very pushy with his sales; teaching his employees the motto, “Don’t hang up until the client dies or buys” (Jordan, 2014). A victim of Belfort’s scheme once told CBS, “he wouldn’t take no for an answer” (Real “Wolf of Wall Street,”

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