Tony Robbins

Chairman, Robbins Research International · 1 appearance on the record.

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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.

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Insight

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.”

Tony Robbins Jan 7, 2026 ▶ 41:07 How To DESTROY Negative Thoughts (And Rewire Your Brain) | Tony Robbins

Insight

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…”

Tony Robbins Jan 7, 2026 ▶ 36:56 How To DESTROY Negative Thoughts (And Rewire Your Brain) | Tony Robbins

Insight

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…”

Tony Robbins Jan 7, 2026 ▶ 9:30 How To DESTROY Negative Thoughts (And Rewire Your Brain) | Tony Robbins

Disclosure

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.”

Tony Robbins Jan 7, 2026 ▶ 25:50 How To DESTROY Negative Thoughts (And Rewire Your Brain) | Tony Robbins

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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 Jan 7, 2026 ▶ 58:26 How To DESTROY Negative Thoughts (And Rewire Your Brain) | Tony Robbins

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Tony Robbins Claims to Have Had Clients in 193 Countries

“I've been in every single major country in the world, clients in every country in the world. So, 193 countries give you an idea.”

Tony Robbins Jan 7, 2026 ▶ 2:09 How To DESTROY Negative Thoughts (And Rewire Your Brain) | Tony Robbins

Insight

Robbins: Never leave a decision without taking immediate binding action

“I always tell people never leave the site of making a decision without doing something that commits you to follow through.”

Tony Robbins Jan 7, 2026 ▶ 16:42 How To DESTROY Negative Thoughts (And Rewire Your Brain) | Tony Robbins

Insight

Robbins: Relying on techniques eventually turns them into operational limitations

“Techniques are cute, and they might work, but then eventually the technique becomes your new toy that will become your new limitation, right?”

Tony Robbins Jan 7, 2026 ▶ 21:12 How To DESTROY Negative Thoughts (And Rewire Your Brain) | Tony Robbins

Insight

Robbins: Pull motivation provides unlimited energy compared to push willpower

“Push is what most people use. I'm going to push myself through and I'm going to make this happen. Well, that takes enormous, you know, I would say, you know, inner strength and that you clearly have that. I clearly have that inner drive, but Everybody's only g…”

Tony Robbins Jan 7, 2026 ▶ 22:55 How To DESTROY Negative Thoughts (And Rewire Your Brain) | Tony Robbins

Opinion

Robbins: Social Media Has Caused Culture to Overvalue Significance

“Our culture way over values significance today because of social media.”

Tony Robbins Jan 7, 2026 ▶ 44:10 How To DESTROY Negative Thoughts (And Rewire Your Brain) | Tony Robbins

Insight

Robbins: High performers who do not fit team culture will destroy businesses

“You know, you can have somebody who's a superstar, but they're the wrong team fit. They rub against everybody else, they piss everybody else off, and maybe they're like your top salesperson, or your top marketing person, your top whatever, and you don't want t…”

Tony Robbins Jan 7, 2026 ▶ 50:35 How To DESTROY Negative Thoughts (And Rewire Your Brain) | Tony Robbins

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Robbins: Organization Lost $100M in Six Months Avoiding Pandemic Layoffs

“Like, we lost a hundred million dollars in six months because I didn't want to fire anybody.”

Tony Robbins Jan 7, 2026 ▶ 57:58 How To DESTROY Negative Thoughts (And Rewire Your Brain) | Tony Robbins

Disclosure

Robbins: I refuse to enter any partnership without full background checks

“What I do is a full background check on everyone now. And it saves me enormous amount. And I tell them upfront, listen, I'm an open book. Please do a full background check. Everything on me that you want to check, but I don't go into any partnerships without a…”

Tony Robbins Jan 7, 2026 ▶ 51:10 How To DESTROY Negative Thoughts (And Rewire Your Brain) | Tony Robbins

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Robbins: Early Partners Stole $758,000 When His Business Made $1M

“I had two partners, and I brought them on board and made a deal with them that was ridiculously good for them, but it was based still on some results, and they absolutely stole seven or 58,000 dollars, 250 of the seven or 58,000 dollars, put me in debt, seven …”

Tony Robbins Jan 7, 2026 ▶ 52:38 How To DESTROY Negative Thoughts (And Rewire Your Brain) | Tony Robbins

The other half of the tape: Tony Robbins's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 47 times in 12 episodes on BigDeal. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Codie Sanchez 26 Dean Graziosi 11 Mark Manson 5 Seth Godin 2 Lewis Howes 1 Ali Abdaal 1 Aaron Alexander 1

Statements about Tony Robbins, by other people (1)

Opinion

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 …”

Mark Manson Dec 4, 2025 ▶ 20:24 The Confidence Expert: How To Build UNSHAKEABLE Self Confidence | Mark Manson