It’s not like I asked him, what’s your 800 number, that’s fuckoff question. Towards the end I started askin him buying questions, like what’s the firm minimum? That’s a buying question, right there that guys gotta take me down. I got every fuckin rebuttal outta this guy, kept him on the phone for an hour and a half. I remember one time I had this guy call me up, wanted to pitch me, right? Wanted to sell me stock. So get on the phones, it’s time to get to work. None of this Debbie the Time Life operator bullshit. Okay? You’re not sendin’ out press packets anymore. When I was a junior broker I did it in 26 days. Seth’s the only one that’s opened the necessary forty accounts for his team leader. I’m gonna keep this short, okay? You passed your sevens over a month ago.

The movie was just so-so, but the scene in which Ben Affleck’s character (Jim Young) explains things to a bunch of trainees in a small-time brokerage house is… chilling. Okay? Act as if.A great “sales” scene from Boiler Room (2000), written and directed by Ben Younger and staring Giovanni Ribisi, Ben Affleck, Scott Caan, Vin Diesel and Nia Long. You understand what that means? Act as if you are the fucking President of this firm. Jim Young: There’s an important phrase that we use here, and think it’s time that you all learned it.So pick up your skirt, grab your balls, and lets go make some money I’m 46 years old, I have 22 years market experience, I know this business.

But I’m not some 18-year-old selling a cure for AIDS.

Broker: I know you’re not standing on your front porch with a bag of money waiting for me to call you.

Chris Varick: Hey, kid, get the fuck outa here.

Either way a sale is made, the only question is who is gonna close? You or him? Now be relentless, that’s it, I’m done. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can’t.

Jim Young: And there is no such thing as a no sale call.

Alan, the only people making money passing are NFL quarterbacks and I don’t see a number on your back. Seth Davis: What do you mean, you’re gonna pass.I’m gonna take you off my list of successful people today. Jim Young: Anybody who tells you money is the root of all evil doesn’t fucking have any.Jim Young: They say money can’t buy happiness? Look at the fucking smile on my face.Here are ten of the greatest quotes from this great film: But as we come to find out, the job might not be as legitimate as it sounds. “Boiler Room” is an engaging movie about a college dropout that gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm, which then puts him on the fast track to success.

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