Baru saja, Jordan Ross Belfort, mantan pialang saham kaya dan fenomenal yang kisah hidupnya dikisahkan di film The Wolf of Wall Street dengan aktor Leonardo DiCaprio, datang di Surabaya. Muda, kaya, foya-foya lalu masuk penjara dan kini bisa bangkit lagi. Siapakah dia?
Jordan Ross Belfort, lahir 9 Juli 1962 adalah motivator dan mantan pialang saham Amerika Serikat. Ia sempat dipenjara selama 22 bulan karena melakukan penipuan terkait manipulasi pasar saham dan pengoperasian ruang pemasaran saham murah.Ia menceritakan kembali perjalanan hidupnya dalam sebuah memoar berjudul The Wolf of Wall Street dan film berjudul serupa tahun 2013 yang dibintangi Leonardo DiCaprio.
The Wolf of Wall Street, yang disebut-sebut sebagai salah satu film terbaik karya sutradara Martin Scorsese dalam 20 tahun terakhir. Diangkat dari catatan harian seorang pilang saham muda kaya raya, Jordan Belfort, film ini menampilkan visual nyata mengenai hidup seorang pria yang bergelimang harta, kekuasaan, wanita, dan obat-obatan terlarang.
Jordan, sang okoh utama film ini mampu mencetak pendapatan hingga US$250 juta lewat perusahaan sekuritas miliknya, Stratton Oakmont. Belfort juga dikenal berani dalam mengambil risiko di industri sekuritas yang keras di pusat keuangan dunia di kota New York, Amerika Serikat. Bahkan belum genap berusia 26 tahun, kesuksesan Belfort berhasil memukau institusi keuangan terbesar di dunia, Wall Street, yang kemudian memberinya julukan serigala
Pada tahun 1998, Belfort dituduh melakukan penipuan sekuritas dan pencucian uang. Setelah bekerja sama dengan FBI, ia menghabiskan 22 bulan di penjara federal karena melakukan skema pump and dump yang mengakibatkan kerugian investor kurang lebih sebesar $200 juta. Belfort diwajibkan membayar ganti rugi sebesar $110,4 juta kepada para pembeli saham.Di penjara, ia bertemu Tommy Chong yang menyarankan agar Belfort menulis dan menerbitkan perjalanan hidupnya.
Dan sekarang, Jordan Belfort is back. Menjadi motivator kelas dunia, Belfort kini telah kmbali memuncaki karir dan prndapatannya. Apa rahasianya? Berikut ini 10 quote fnomenal Belfort.
1. Stop Ngeles
The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.
2. Jangan Terjebak Masa Lalu
No matter what happened to you in your past, you are not your past, you are the resources and the capabilities you glean from it. And that is the basis for all change.
3. Bikin Sesuatu Yang Dicari Orang
The easiest way to make money is create something of such value that everybody wants and go out and give and create value, the money comes automatically.
4. Jangan Menyerah
If you want to be rich, never give up. People tend to give up. If you have persistence, you will come out ahead of most people. More importantly, you will learn. When you do something, you might fail. But that's not because you're a failure. It's because you have not learnt enough. Do it differently each time. One day, you will do it right. Failure is your friend.
5. Naikan Standar
When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.
6. Kendalikan Hidupmu
Successful people are 100% convinced that they are masters of their own destiny , they're not creatures of circumstance, they create circumstance, if the circumstances around them suck they change them.
7. Sukses itu Wajib
Winners use words that say must and will
8. Berperilaku Kaya
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.
9. Tanya Kenapa
If you give people a good enough why, they will always figure out the how.
10. Mind Control
I believe in total immersion, if you want to be rich, you have to program your mind to be rich. You have to unlearn all the thoughts that were making you poor and replace them with new thoughts. [bbi/age]
