Tony Robbins
Chairman, Robbins Research International. On 4 shows, 4 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Robbins is a personal development strategist and author of self-help and finance books, including Awaken the Giant Within, Money: Master the Game, and Life Force. He is known for seminars like Unleash the Power Within and manages a portfolio holding company comprising dozens of businesses.
4shows
4appearances
76statements
27resolved
4supported
8contradicted
15%fully supported
237said about them ↓ Everything Tony Robbins said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Robbins claims COVID-19 vaccines and infection cause turbo cancers in youth
“After COVID and the injections, a lot of young people, these turbo cancers that are happening, because their immune systems have been harmed, and so now everything starts to shake up.”
Robbins: Stanford study found 97% became depression symptom-free post-seminar
“And I'm proud to tell you that the end of six weeks, 97% of people had no symptoms whatsoever. Seven percent had symptoms, but they had lessened massively. But 17% had suicidal ideation coming in and coming out, and none did.”
Tony Robbins claims meta-studies prove SSRIs do not work
“SSRIs don't work. They don't. They've been proven not to work by the meta studies, but we're still giving them millions of people.”
Robbins: SSRI antidepressant medications do not work
“They don't work, and yet we still sell them for some reason.”
Robbins: Stanford study found his program eliminated depression in 100% of participants
“100% of the people that they put through this program after six weeks had zero expressions of depression.”
Tony Robbins: You cannot have impact without being willing to offend
“If you're not going to offend anybody, you're not going to have any impact.”
Robbins: 60% of people using drugs or therapy for depression see zero improvement
“60% of the people who use drugs or therapy to try and get out of depression, make zero improvements.”
Robbins: Meta-studies show 60% of depression patients receive zero treatment benefit
“60% of the people that go in, according to meta studies, for treatment of depression with drugs and or therapy or both, 60% make zero improvement.”
Tony Robbins: Sharing problems offers support but prevents breakthroughs
“In a man's world, the more you solve problems, the more you move up the hierarchy of being a man. In a woman's world, no, you share your problems so you can connect and feel for the person, right? And you want to stay with it, and so forth. So what happens wit…”
Robbins: Johns Hopkins psilocybin study rendered 53% symptom-free after six weeks
“At the end of six weeks, 53% of the people had no symptoms whatsoever, depression, nothing like it in history.”
Tony Robbins claims he burns over 11,000 calories per day during events
“I burn 11,500 calories, 11,300 calories on average in a day.”
Robbins predicts 5-10 years until annual biological age reversal is possible
“If you stay well, take care of yourself now over the next five to 10 years, the kinds of transformations are going to allow us to be in a position where every year you could be a year younger, at least maintain where you are.”
Average private equity returns beat every global stock market over 35 years
“In the last 35 years, every stock market in the world has produced a smaller return than private equity, average private equity at that same time.”
Private equity produces more billionaires than the tech or real estate industries
“What's the largest number of billionaires? And most people think it's tech and it's not. And then they think it's real estate and it's not, it's financial services, but it's not hedge funds and it's not VC funds, some VC funds, but not most, very small. It's p…”
Robbins: VA study showed sham knee surgery outperformed real arthroscopic surgery
“There was a study done by the VA, and it was on arthroscopic surgeries, and what they did was they took a group, and this, and as a result, they changed all the policies, the VA around this, and they gave them fake surgeries. What they did is put them under ju…”
Robbins: Mayo Clinic finds second medical opinions differ 74% of the time
“So the Mayo Clinic has found that 74% of the time the second opinion is not the same as the first.”
Robbins: 14% of his diagnostic patients have unknown life-threatening conditions
“We find 14% of the people have a life threatening disease. They don't know that they have.”
Robbins: Breakthroughs Require Fixing Emotional State Before Strategy
“Your state controls your story. Your story and your state control whether you do anything. If no one showed you how to get the strategy, you'd figure out the strategy. You'd find the way you'd make the way with the right state. So all the work I've done most o…”
Robbins: Refused to Appear in 'The Secret' Over Oversimplified Premise
“When they did the secret, they came to me to be part of secret. I said, I will not participate in a million years. This is bullshit.”
Zoom Founder Modified Software Capacity for Robbins to Host 25,000 Attendees
“And then I called Eric Yon, the founder of Zoom, and said, 1200 people is not going to work. I need 25,000 people. And he's a fan of mine, so he changed the tech so we could do it.”
Tony Robbins says his 114 companies generate over $9B in revenue
“Now I have a 114 companies in massively different industries, but we do about nine billion dollars, a little bit more in revenue and I love the diversity.”
Robbins: Cognitive therapy has limited long-term impact without physiological change
“If you also don't change the physiology of the person, you have a limited range.”
Robbins: Combining three or more prescription drugs yields unpredictable physiological outcomes
“And most of them have more than one, and any time you combine three pills, you cannot predict the outcome in your body.”
The other half of the tape: Tony Robbins's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 227 times in 66 episodes across the shows. 10 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Shaan Puri 116Codie Sanchez 26Sam Parr 20Marc Benioff 15Dean Graziosi 11Jack Smith 9Mark Manson 5Jason Calacanis 5
Statements about Tony Robbins, by other people (10)
Benioff: Salesforce would not exist without Tony Robbins
“Hey, if it wasn't for Tony Robbins, I don't think there would be a Salesforce, so there you go.”
Manson: High-energy motivational seminars are 'synthetic fun' for isolated, depressed people
“Like, I'm, I don't, but it's funny because I think it's, ultimately, we're not the target market. Like, it's, if you think about somebody who's, like, Extremely depressed. Extremely lonely. Like, hasn't gotten out much. Has kind of lost touch with most of the …”
Puri: Every Business Problem Stems From the Owner's Psychology
“The number one choke point of any business is the psychology of the owner. Like, every problem you think your business has, If you do the root cause analysis, it goes right back up to the root, to the psychology of the owner, right?”
Panda Express founder mandates employees attend Tony Robbins seminars
“A founder of Panda Express makes all of his employees go through a Tony Robbins and how to influence people seminar.”
Puri: Tony Robbins' 'Dickens Method' makes inaction more painful than change
“The Dickens method is a, it's a technique where you sort of vividly imagine, you time travel to the future. You're like, okay, let's play it forward a year. Let's play it forward five years. I'm still doing it. I'm keep doing it. I do more of it. In fact, beca…”
Smith: Tony Robbins' 6'7" Height Resulted From a Brain Tumor
“Tony then found he had like a tumor on his brain that has made his body release like loads of human growth hormone. And so basically that's why he's six foot seven. He has, he's just a massive giant growth spurt, but he also feels like he has abundant energy.”
Tony Robbins Teared Up During His My First Million Interview
“Tears were shed, and they weren't mine. And if there's one mark of a successful Tony, like, life accomplishment, I wouldn't say he cried, wouldn't say, but he, you know, teared up”
Horowitz: Tony Robbins is a top psychologist of the last 50 years
“Probably, you know, one of the great psychologists of the last 50 years and has done just incredible work and helped so many people, and he is, Kind of the person, the number one person that you call if you need to, you know, kind of improve your performance o…”
Porterfield: Tony Robbins demands a rigorous debrief immediately after every stage exit.
“When he gets off, he looks at who's ever in his proximity and he's like, all right, let's download. He downloads every single time he comes off stage. What worked, what didn't, what we can make better, what he liked, what he didn't like. He wants feedback from…”
Tony Robbins began working for Jim Rohn at age 17 while homeless
“Tony Robbins sat in my seminar when he was 17. 17, he was on the outs with his parents, and he was sleeping in his car, and someone got him to come to my seminar age 17, so you don't, you never know who's in the audience. And he worked for me for three and a h…”
Every mention by year
tap a year for its mentions
My First Million 159
BigDeal 47
All-In 21
2026 41 mentions in 9 episodes 5 per episode
- Trump-Xi Summit, Benioff: "Not My First SaaSpocalypse," OpenAI vs Apple, Multi-Sensory AI, El Niño
- How to Solve Problems Better Than 99% of People | Seth Godin
- How to Start A Business With NO Money | Blake Mycoskie (Founder of TOMS)
- 8 Tips For Killing Weakness (From Someone Who Learned The Hard Way)
- The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of
- Inside the Minds of the Most Successful Founders | David Senra
- How to Speak with the Richest 1%
- We asked a $18.9B Investor how to survive the AI bubble
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 52 mentions in 15 episodes 3 per episode
- The Man Who Makes Millionaires (for 30+ Years): His Money Framework I Dean Graziosi
- $50M Poker Pro Shares Emotional Intelligence Tricks For Founders
- The Confidence Expert: How To Build UNSHAKEABLE Self Confidence | Mark Manson
- Fed Hesitates on Tariffs, The New Mag 7, Death of VC, Google's Value in a Post-Search World
- The Most Valuable Skill For Any Founder
- 60 Minute Business Masterclass (worth more than your Stanford MBA)
- The insane story of Blake Scholl: the high school dropout who’s building supersonic jets
- I run a $180M+ company...here's how I'm using AI on a daily basis
- 7 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 56 mentions in 18 episodes 3 per episode
- Brainstorming +$1M Weird Business Ideas With Morning Brew’s CEO Austin Rief (#543)
- Jack Smith On Biohacking, 2 Easy Business Ideas, PLUS Why Procrastination Is Good
- How Mike Posner built a music empire from his dorm room
- 5 Business Ideas To Start Today With $0 ft. Shark Tank's Sabri Suby
- Leila Hormozi: From Minimum Wage Employee to $100M Net Worth By 29
- How To Master Storytelling ft. David Perell
- Q&A: Gut punches, favorite guests, plus advice for life
- How To Grow An Audience If You Have 0 Followers
- 10 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 14 mentions in 4 episodes 4 per episode
2022 35 mentions in 5 episodes 7 per episode
- Behind The Scenes Of $1,000,000/Year Online Courses
- 6 Hilarious Business Ideas That Could Make You $1,000,000 in 2022 (#351)
- Asking A Billionaire Investor How To Prepare For The Economic Collapse (#371)
- Controversial Business Lessons From Napoleon, Edison, & Hitler (#369)
- 4 Robot Businesses That Will Take Over The Fast Food Industry (#359)
- every mention in 2022, scene by scene →
2021 29 mentions in 15 episodes 2 per episode
- Holiday Special: Great Finds (Products, Apps, Media)
- Second-hand E-commerce, Door-to-door Sales, and Live Show Recaps | My First Million #189
- Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, "How Much is Pomp Worth?", and More
- Dopamine Fasts, Cruise Ship Investing, and Elon vs Bezos with Andrew Wilkinson, Co-Founder of Tiny
- How to Make Millions With a Modern Day Infomercial | My First Million #221
- A Breakdown of Trendy New Businesses & Boring 9 Figure Businesses | My First Million #202
- How Beachbody Makes Money, & Brainstorming "HackerNews for X" | My First Million #173
- Why You Shouldn't Be A Slave to a 40 Hour Work Week | My First Million #212
- 7 more episodes that year, every mention in 2021 →
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Tony's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 a16zLEDGER | Chairman, Robbins Research International | 1 | 30 | 17% 2/12 | full record on the a16z Podcast → |
| ALL-INLEDGER | Chairman, Robbins Research International | 1 | 20 | 0% 0/7 | full record on All-In → |
| BIGDEALLEDGER | Chairman, Robbins Research International | 1 | 14 | 0% 0/1 | full record on BigDeal → |
| MY FIRST MILLIONLEDGER | Chairman, Robbins Research International | 1 | 12 | 29% 2/7 | full record on My First Million → |