Experience – knowledge or skill in a particular job or activity that you have gained
Responsibility – doing the things we are supposed to do and accepting the positive or negative outcomes of our actions.
1. Is your job hard for you? Why?
2. What are the biggest challenges you’ve ever faced?
3. Have you ever invested money in stocks? Why?
Number one rule of Wall Street. Nobody, I don’t care if you’re Warren Buffet or if you’re Jimmy Buffet, nobody knows if a stock is gonna go up, down, sideways or in fucking circles, least of all stockbrokers, right?
Watch the video clip and answer the questions:
- What is Mark Hanna's game plan for lunch?
- What is Mark Hanna's attitude to the clients?
- What's the number one rule of Wall Street?
- What should Jordan do if his client wants to cash his stocks?
Mark Hanna: Tootski?
Jordan Belfort: Oh, no, no, thank you though.
Hector the Waiter: Misters, what can I bring for you on this glorious afternoon?
Mark Hanna: Well, Hector here’s the game plan. You’re gonna bring us two Absolut martinis, you know how I like ’em, straight up. And then precisely seven and one-half minutes after that you’re gonna bring us two more. And then two more after that every five minutes until one of us passes the fuck out.
Hector the Waiter: Excellent strategy, sir.
Jordan Belfort: Oh, I’m…I’m good with water for now though. Thank you.
Mark Hanna: It’s his first day on Wall Street, give him time. Thank you.
Hector the Waiter: Mm-hmm.
Jordan Belfort: Thank you. Mr. Hanna, you’re able to…to do drugs during the day and still function, still do your job?
Mark Hanna: Well, how the fuck else would you do this job? Cocaine and hookers, my friends.
Jordan Belfort: Right. I gotta say, I’m incredibly excited to be a part of your firm. I mean…the clients you have are absolutely…
Mark Hanna: Fuck the clients. Your only responsibility is to put meat on the table. You got a girlfriend?
Jordan Belfort: I’m…I’m married. I have a wife; her name is Teresa. She cuts hair.
Mark Hanna: Congratulations.
Jordan Belfort: Thank you.
Mark Hanna: Think about Teresa. Name of the game, move the money from your clients’ pocket into your pocket.
Jordan Belfort: Right. But if you can make the clients’ money at the same time, it’s advantageous to everyone, correct?
Mark Hanna: No. Number one rule of Wall Street. Nobody, I don’t care if you’re Warren Buffet or if you’re Jimmy Buffet, nobody knows if a stock is gonna go up, down, sideways or in fucking circles, least of all stockbrokers, right?
Jordan Belfort: Mm-hmm.
Mark Hanna: It’s all a fugazi. Do you know what fugazi is?
Jordan Belfort: Fugazi, it’s a fake…
Mark Hanna: Yeah, fugazi, fogazi. It’s a wazi, it’s a woozi. It’s…fairy dust. It doesn’t exist, it’s never landed, it is no matter, it’s not on the elemental chart. It’s not fucking real. Right?
Jordan Belfort: Right.
Mark Hanna: Alright?
Jordan Belfort: Right.
Mark Hanna: Stay with me. We don’t create shit; we don’t build anything.
Jordan Belfort: No.
Mark Hanna: So if you got a client who bought stock at eight, and it now sits at sixteen, and he’s all fucking happy, he wants to cash it and liquidate and take his fucking money and run home. You don’t let him do that.
Jordan Belfort: Okay.
Mark Hanna: Cause that would make it real.
Jordan Belfort: Right.
Mark Hanna: No, what do you do? You get another brilliant idea, a special idea. Another situation, another stock to reinvest his earnings, and then some. And he will, every single time. Cause they’re fucking addicted. And then you just keep doing this, again, and again, and again. Meanwhile, he thinks he’s getting shit rich, which he is, on paper. But you and me, the brokers?
Jordan Belfort: Right.
Mark Hanna: We’re taking home cold hard cash via commission, motherfucker.
- How do you cope with work overload?
- What is the name of the game in your job?
- How do you relax after a hard business day?
- Have you ever done anything crazy in your job? What and why?
- Have you ever done drugs?
Say the following phrases without pauses and interruptions.
- Tell them, tell her, tell him
- You know how I like them
- Give him time
- I gotta say
- I don't care, We don't create anything
- to put the meat on the table
- You got a girlfriend?
- You don't let him do that
- Do you know
- Did you know
