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Jordan Belfort's book recommendations
Across 2 podcasts. Every show Jordan Belfort appears on, in one place — not just one.
Jordan Belfort is an American former stockbroker and businessman who pleaded guilty to fraud and related crimes in connection with stock-market manipulation and running a boiler room as part of a penny-stock scam in 1999. Belfort spent 22 months in prison as part of an agreement under which, becoming an informant for the FBI and wearing a covert listening device, he gave testimony against numerous partners and subordinates in his fraud scheme. He published the memoir The Wolf of Wall Street in 2007, which was adapted into Martin Scorsese's film of the same name released in 2013. On podcasts, Belfort discussed Tom Wolfe's book The Bonfire of the Vanities, recounting how he discovered it in the prison library and used it as a model to teach himself how to write. Additionally, he discussed the book and film Contact by Carl Sagan on The Rubin Report, affirming that it is a great work.
Books recommended by Jordan Belfort
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe is a satirical novel chronicling ambition, greed, and urban decay in 1980s New York City.
Discussed“I go to the prison library and I stumble upon a book called bonfire of the vanities like Tom Wolf”
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Contact
Contact by Carl Sagan is a classic science fiction novel that chronicles humanity's first detected radio signal from an extraterrestrial civilization and the subsequent efforts to build a machine to meet them.
Discussed“Like I think one of the greatest movies is like "Contact". It's with Jodie Foster. It's just a great movie. - I love that Carl Sagan. Right, it's a great book, great movie. And they ask that, "So you think that 95% of the population "is suffering from mass delusion?" (laughs) - And she says, I've asked the question. -”
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Books by Jordan Belfort
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jordan Belfort | The Tucker Carlson Show | 2023-12-30 | 2 |
| Wolf of Wall St. Secrets & Staying Employed in a Downturn| Jordan Belfort Interview | The Rubin Report | 2021-01-31 | 1 |
Other mentions (9: passing, ad reads, own books)
“He was being interviewed is after Avatar came out and now he had like two out of the three multi-billion dollar blockbusters and I think I think his name Larry King was forgot who it was rest in peace.”
“I was watching Crash with my wife Paul Haggus film. Great film.”
“so I I I kind of buried Kramer in the book I guess I'm not going on CNBC anytime soon for any intervie”
“so the question right in the book was you know how does the average person get the maximum exposure to the good side of Wall Street”
“so the solution I put in this book which is ironic of where I came from right”
“so I you holed up and literally I had a little tiny apartment and I spent one year just like doing 18 hours a day writing the book The Wolf for Wall Street right”
“I I look at this book as it's a gift if you read this book really it's such it's a it's like a blueprint and it's really simple”
“And ultimately it started off as a beautiful, amazing thing. And I lost my way, and I started manipulating some stocks, smuggled money to Switzerland, clients lost money, I went to jail, and I wrote a book about it, and that book became a movie.”
“I went to jail, and I wrote a book about it, and that book became a movie. And I got really lucky 'cause the thing is when you make a movie there's two things can happen. You could have a movie made about you, and I love Danny DeVito, but let's just say, you could get played by Danny DeVito”