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Honestly I've been in real world for the last 2 years and it's not like the movie. By the time you finish an 8 hr or more work day your body won't feel good and all you want to do is go home and sleep. How I even make it to the gym 5 days a week is beyond me. Even if you make it to the VP status, models n' bottles gets old real quick. But good luck though.

Greed is Good!
 
CUBuffwg

Honestly I've been in real world for the last 2 years and it's not like the movie.

Really? You don't say..

 

Most people (not saying you) in the real world are not competent for their jobs. Fake it till ya make it!

Greed is Good!
 

I did when I was 19 and young. 3AM workouts was the best and it also helped that I lived less than a mile away. 24HR gym isn't everywhere you know. I still have abs though.

Greed is Good!
 
Kirosene

Hello there,
What is the shortest way(Business school, jobs, ...) to have the same life(money,model,girls, coke ...) as the Wolf of Wall street.

Club promoter, brah. Those guys are always "raging," "slaying," and "absolutely killing it." Plus, you get to wear Ed Hardy or Affliction TO WORK. How cool is that? Hella cool. It's hella cool. That's how cool it is.

Commercial Real Estate Developer
 

Man ! you know i'm not looking for the "raging," "slaying," part of the wolf of wall street I want the other one with girls sex & coke.

 
Kirosene

Man ! you know i'm not looking for the "raging," "slaying," part of the wolf of wall street I want the other one with girls sex & coke.

Yeah...I was being facetious.

Anyhow, if you're already this awful at trolling, you're probably not cut out for the real Wolf of Wall Street lifestyle

Commercial Real Estate Developer
 

OK guys I will be more specific here. I don't need advice from honest hard working bankers. I need advice from the real Bankers, the corrupt stock frauder bankers (Private message please if you want to protect identity).

Ps: i'm not Police, FBI, CIA, or any kind of authorities, i'm just looking for informations out of pure curiosity

 
Kirosene

OK guys I will be more specific here. I don't need advice from honest hard working bankers. I need advice from the real Bankers, the corrupt stock frauder bankers (Private message please if you want to protect identity).

Ps: i'm not Police, FBI, CIA, or any kind of authorities, i'm just looking for informations out of pure curiosity

lmao. bro, start sending this message around linkedin, much better results guaranteed.

 

I'm surprised that they don't have any AMAs on here from con men... WSO is lacking so heavily in its best interviews section

Make Idaho a Semi-Target Again 2016 Not an alumnus of Idaho
 

Serious answer incoming:

If you really want that lifestyle, the methodology is quite straightforward. Ingratiate yourself to wealthy people who know nothing about finance or the markets. Tell them all about your fantastic ways of investing and just spend the money they give you. Continue taking money from people and keep some in reserve in case someone tries to 'redeem'. They'll get their money back with the returns you put on their statements and everyone is happy and you can continue getting more money from other people. That is by far the fastest and most direct way to that lifestyle. You will need 100% confidence and need to be a great salesman. You certainly won't get there by joining a bank as an analyst.

Good luck!

 

Pitch your revolutionary ideas for startups that will disrupt the ways that people have traditionally dealt with fashion, eugenics, and PCP delivery. Brand your companies as FASHIST, Godsy, and dustme.io, respectively. Lie that you went to Harvard. Collect millions, nay, billions from VCs. Become greedy and concurrently launch a Kickstarter campaign to steal from mere plebeians mountains of Bitcoins, just because you CAN. Use 80% of your funding on the aforementioned partying and coke, which will naturally attract whores and models. You are so cool. Cash in the remaining funds to be received as quarters so as to create a coin filled room in the ostentatious style of Uncle Scrooge from Duck Tales. Swim. Wake up one morning to find that there remains but $18.46 in your checking account. Order Tikka masala from Baluchi's—lol, you have, like, JUST enough. Get a few "let's touch base" emails from investors. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Be on the receiving end of a few disappointed sighs, but reemerge from the conference room relatively unscathed. Remember that you have a backup supply of bitcoins and use that to purchase a Winklevoss twin, because YOLO.

Banking's not the way to go, young troll.

 

You want the fastest and easiest way to get the Wolf of Wall Street lifestyle? Buy every possible lottery ticket for a drawling for 1 million dollars.

Follow the shit your fellow monkeys say @shitWSOsays Life is hard, it's even harder when you're stupid - John Wayne
 

Did you watch the movie?

Got fired, make a killing on penny stocks. Met a loyal fat dude, gather sketchy salesmen, make even more killing on penny stocks and blue chips bundle. Voila. Everything will be exponential from there.

In other words, be a salesman so good your clients think you are a prophet.

Fortes fortuna adiuvat.
 

How much cash flow would you need to sustain that lifestyle?

My guess is minimum 10 Mill+ a year.

Most investment bankers will never be close to that. I am guessing that's like a 18 Year tenure minimum.

 

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