Like most people I love hustle stories about people who did everything they could to make it happen.

Real

• Alex Banayan: The Third Door
• Elliot Bisnow: Make No Small Plans and also featured in The Third Door
• Jerry Weintraub: When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead
• Elon Musk: Biography
• Steve Jobs: Biography
• Phil Knight: Shoe Dog
• Arnold Schwarzenegger: Total Recall
• Everyone in: Selling Sunset (Series)

• Philipp Maximilian Scharpenack: Life the the Max

• Adam Neumann: The Cult of We, We Crashed (Series)
• Paul Le Roux: The Mastermind
• John Low: Billion Dollar Whale
• Ross Ulbricht: American Kingpin
• Elizabeth Holmes: Bad Blood, The Dropout (Series)
• Anna Sorokin: Inventing Anna (Series)
• Billy McFarland: FYRE (Series)
• Osho: Wild Wild Country (Series)
• Maximilian Schmidt: How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) (Series)
• Jordan Belfort: Wolf of Wall Street (Movie)
• Joe Exotic: Tiger King (Series)

Fictional

• Everyone in: Billions (Series)
• Everyone in: Suits (Series)
• Patrick Jane: Mentalist (Series)
• Frank Underwood: House of Cards (Series)
• Ari Gold: Enourage (Series), based on real-world agent Ari Emanuel
• Don Draper: Mad Men (Series)