Tony Robbins Quotes

“I don't worry about maintaining the quality of my life, because every day I work on improving it.”

“The difference between success and failure is not which stock you buy or which piece of real estate you buy, it's asset allocation.”

“If you lose 50%, it takes 100% to get back to where you started-and that takes something you can never get back: time.”

“We're emotionally unfit. We expect things to be given to us that other generations had to earn. We think we're supposed to get homes with no money down and be supported by the government if we're unemployed.”

“Take massive action. So many people wait until they have all the answers.”

“You have to move from just working for money to a world where money works for you.”

“Feed and strengthen your body. Fear is physical. When you lift weights or go for a sprint, that energy flows back into your body and restores you to certainty.”

“We are defined by the stories we tell ourselves.”

“You're already a financial trader. You might not think of it in just this way, but if you work for a living, you're trading your time for money. Frankly, it's just about the worst trade you can make. Why? You can always get more money, but you can't get more time.”

“The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.”

“You're far more likely to lose the weight and keep it off if you lose slowly, perhaps ½ to 1 pound a week, exercise moderately, and find that replacement for comfort, connection, and control. That's a doable long-term plan.”

“Money can't be cared about - it's got to be a tool that you use, because if you don't use it, it will use you.”

“Life will pay any price you ask of it.”

“There are a lot of talkers in the world. There are a lot of people who know what’s right and what’s powerful, yet still aren’t producing the results they desire. It’s not enough to talk the talk. You’ve got to walk the talk”

“I believe therapy can be done more rapidly. I'm into your finding the source of what's making you think and feel the way you do and shifting it quickly.”

“The average American thinks billionaire investors are going to be right based on some talking head. They invest and they have no backup plan. Americans think these guys are giant risk-takers. The truth is they believe in taking as little risk as humanly possible, for the maximum amount of upside. They're looking for that spread of disproportionate risk-reward.”

“You have to make the shift from being a consumer in the economy to becoming an owner-and you do it by becoming an investor.”

“Billionaire investors know they're going to be wrong, so they have a plan to protect against wrong.”

“We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.”

“We want to avoid pain and have pleasure, so if our early attempts to achieve our dreams fail, we want to avoid the pain of future failure and rejection, so we stop trying and write it off with a broadbrush, "I'm just not driven enough, not well educated enough, not attractive enough, not smart enough."”

“To create an extraordinary quality of life, you must create a vision that's not only obtainable, but that is sustainable.”

“Most everybody thinks that if I want to get big rewards I need to take huge risks. But if you keep thinking that, you're gonna be broke.”

“The one thing you can do for others is the manage your own life. And do it with conviction.”

“If you do extreme exercise to lose weight, you'll usually soon stop because you get injured or because it's simply too rigorous to do for a lifetime.”

“The scary truth is 96 percent of mutual funds fail to match the market, and the 4 percent that do, they're always changing.”