By now almost everyone has heard of the memoir of Jordan Belfort from the popular blockbuster film “The Wolf of Wall Street” by Martin Scorsese, starring Leonardo Dicaprio as Belfort himself. The $100 million film earned DiCaprio a Golden Globe award, grossed $389 million worldwide and made Belfort $1 million in movie rights.

For those that aren’t familiar, Belfort was a U.S. Stockbroker in the 1990s who was convicted and sentenced to 4 years in 2003,but only spent 18 months behind bars for money laundering and securities fraud.

He was the Founder and CEO of his Long Island based brokerage firm, Stratton Oakmont Inc.,which exploited investors out of more than $200 million through pump and dump schemes. The SEC terminated Stratton Oakmont in 1998 and ordered Belfort, now a motivational speaker, to compensate $110.4 million to the victims of his firm through half his income.

Jordan Belfort told a conference in Dubai Monday that he expects to make more this year than his top years as a stockbroker, “I’ll make this year more than I ever made in my best year as a broker.”

“My goal is to make north of $100 million, so I am paying back everyone this year.” The motivational speaker is on a 45-city speaking tour in the U.S. to repay about $50 million to investors. “After six months of putting all the profit from the U.S. tour into an escrow account, it will go directly back to investors,” he said.

Belfort now enlightens his audience of what he has learned, “I got greedy, greed is not good. Ambition is good; passion is good. Passion prospers. My goal is to give more than I get; that’s a sustainable form of success.” He admits his wrong doings, taking advantage of investors, cheated loved ones, and once so addicted to drugs that he kicked his 2nd spouse down the stairs in front of his daughter. Is Belfort a changed man?