The Wolf of Wall Street

By: Jordan Belfort

Narrated by: Bobby Cannavale

Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins

Publisher's summary

Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could, on drugs, sex, and international globe-trotting. From the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht, crashed a Gulfstream jet, and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife and kids who waited for him at home, and the fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers who called him king and did his bidding, here, in his own inimitable words, is the story of the ill-fated genius they called...

The Wolf of Wall Street

In the 1990s Jordan Belfort, former kingpin of the notorious investment firm Stratton Oakmont, became one of the most infamous names in American finance: a brilliant, conniving stock-chopper who led his merry mob on a wild ride out of the canyons of Wall Street and into a massive office on Long Island. Now, in this astounding and hilarious tell-all autobiography, Belfort narrates a story of greed, power, and excess no one could invent.

Stratton Oakmont turned microcap investing into a wickedly lucrative game as Belfort’s hyped-up, coked-out brokers browbeat clients into stock buys that were guaranteed to earn obscene profits - for the house. But an insatiable appetite for debauchery, questionable tactics, and a fateful partnership with a breakout shoe designer named Steve Madden would land Belfort on both sides of the law and into a harrowing darkness all his own.

From the stormy relationship Belfort shared with his model-wife as they ran a madcap household that included two young children, a full-time staff of 22, a pair of bodyguards, and hidden cameras everywhere - even as the SEC and FBI zeroed in on them - to the unbridled hedonism of his office life, here is the extraordinary story of an ordinary guy who went from hustling Italian ices at 16 to making hundreds of millions. Until it all came crashing down.

©2007 Jordan Belfort (P)2007 Random House Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House Inc.

Critic reviews

"A cocky bad boy of finance recalls...[his] career as a master of his own universe....A hell of a read." ( Kirkus Reviews)

An eye opener

an amazing story can't stop replaying the book simply astonishing fun and a good lesson to be learned !!!

Awesome book!

very well narrated and a super enjoyable story! highly recommend this book if you even kind of liked the movie!

S.S.T.P.

Short sweet vulgar and too the point loved it .....thanks Bobby big fan.....[add 15 words]

A wild ride!

Tremendously enjoyable writing and voice acting. It will completely immerse you until the very end.

Has to be one of my favorites

I watched the movie and have always watched Jordan on YouTube. So I decided to give his book a shot. It’s was amazing. The details make you feel like you were there!

Not the full book

Why does audible shorten chapters, and completely exclude other chapters? Is that just this book or is that normal for all audiobooks on here?

Everything I wanted and more !

If I had read this in high-school it would have out me on the path of business and stocks sooner.

Not Full Version

The audiobook was hard to follow with the amount of characters there were and not much background info given on any of them. As well as this apparently being abridged. After watching the movie it felt as if many of the scenes have been removed from this book.

Captivating!

The performance was very in- character making it a captivating experience. I am late getting to this book, but it is both an interesting and enlightening view into the potentially crooked antics of the ~1%

Better than I expected

I can see many reasons why people will dislike this book: the author's ethical shadiness, the trite descriptions of so-and-so's loamy loins, etc. But if you give it a chance and really think about what's happening here, you'll find more substance than is apparent. The best parts actually weren;t so much the Wall Street events, but the author's involvement with corporate life, Steve Madden, Inc. I was familiar with the company some years ago form the vantage point of a stcok analyst, and I got some good trades in it. The inside view was fascinating. If you invest in emerging growth companies, these chapters can be quite intriguing.