The Wolf Of Wall Street: 5 Things We Can Learn From Jordan Belford

3. Drugs Will Mess You Up

In an ironically sobering scene in the film, on Belford's first day in investment banking, he goes for lunch with his boss. The advice to the new boy that he offers is simple - over several strong cocktails he tells Jordan to get drunk at lunchtime, take a lot of drugs, and try and convince his clients that the stock market is 'real'. Admirably, our protagonist avoids the narcotics until a suspect spliff is offered to him by Donny - and in that he climbs into the car that we all will know will eventually crash. Later on in the film, Jordan travels to England to negotiate an illicit money trafficking deal with his wife's classy British auntie. She rebukes him: "You're sweating bullets, my love. Somebody's got a bit of a drug problem." Eventually the drugs catch up with him and he crashes - going cold turkey has a profound effect on Jordan that ultimately ruins him.