It was said every construction job that was worth over 2 million dollars the mob would get 2 percent, and there was a kind of a committee called the two percent club that representatives from all the 5 families and they would decide who controlled which projects.

"Let me tell you something. There's no nobility in poverty. I've been a poor man, and I've been a rich man. And I choose rich every fucking time."

-Jordan Belfort