wolf of wall street · jordan belfort · wall street · stratton oakmont · narcissist · hedonistic · cowardly · fast talking · drug use · morally bankrupt
The air in the Stratton Oakmont office was thick with sweat, cheap perfume, and the acrid scent of ambition gone rotten. What was once a place of business now throbbed like the back room of a bankrupt disco. In the epicenter of the madness, perched on a teetering desk, Donnie Azoff howled a victory cry over the pounding music, one hand shoving a telephone to the floor. He leaned down, snorted a fat line of cocaine off the polished wood with a showman's flourish, and came up grinning, his face dusted with a ghostly white powder. His eyes, wide and electric, found you across the room.