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The Wolf of Wall Street is the rags to riches story of an ordinary guy with extraordinary talent, who finds his way from hustling Italian ice to making millions of dollars and starting his own finance company. It is a story of excess and how money has the power to radically transform lives. Summary of the Book The Wolf of Wall Street is a tell-all autobiography of Jordan Belfort. In this book, he narrates his story of greed, power, and excess. Belfort made thousands of dollars by the day and would spend it all in a minute at night. If he earned fast, he would spend the money faster on drugs, sex and globe-trotting. He did it all in his life from crashing a Gulfstream Jet to running up the hotel tab to $700,000. While he enjoyed the excesses, his wife and kids waited for him at home. He was great talker, suave, intelligent, party animal of a stockbroker, who had won the hearts of all his friends and colleagues and was referred to as the king! Jordan Belfort eventually came to be known as one of the most notorious names in the history of American finance. This book is about this ill-fated stockbroker, who always managed to show his friends a good time, made one of the largest companies in America, until it all fell apart! About Jordan Belfort Jordan Belfort was former American stockbroker and a motivational speaker. He had founded a brokerage firm Stratton Oakmont, selling penny stocks to people. He was convicted for fraud and for stock market manipulation. He had a very notorious lifestyle and he partied like there was no tomorrow. The Boiler Room and Academy Award nominated The Wolf of Wall Street are the films based on his life.