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.
12statements → 9claims → 7claims resolved → 29%fully supported → 4.08/5average certainty → 1.92/5average debate potential → ≈4.0/5argument clarity, estimated → 166said about them ↓
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9 assertions · 1 insight · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 9 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 7 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.
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Elite athletes experience a testosterone surge and cortisol drop under high pressure
“And they discovered there's a biochemistry of what they call championship biochemistry. It's where these people like Tom Brady's down by 10 points, and it's the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl, and he comes back the way to me. How? He has this huge surge of t…”
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Everything Tony Robbins said on My First Million that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →
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…”
Tony Robbins holds 111 companies generating over $7 billion in revenue
“So today, you know, now I have a 111 companies. We do over a seven billion dollars in business across radically different industries.”
Elite athletes experience a testosterone surge and cortisol drop under high pressure
“And they discovered there's a biochemistry of what they call championship biochemistry. It's where these people like Tom Brady's down by 10 points, and it's the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl, and he comes back the way to me. How? He has this huge surge of t…”
Richard Branson negotiated a zero-downside jet return deal with Boeing
“So he negotiated for a year with Boeing. Till he finally got them to agree that he'd buy all these jets. But a year from now, if he was not able to be profitable in business or stay in the business, he could return all the jets with no credit loss, no cost to …”
Holding 8 to 12 uncorrelated investments reduces portfolio risk by 80%
“If you can find eight to 12 uncorrelated investments, he said, you can reduce your risk by 80% and make a slight increase in your upside.”
Major sports teams averaged 18% annualized returns over the past decade
“In the last 10 years, if you take the NBA, the Major League Baseball, soccer, and hockey, those four together, they've averaged between them, 18% compounded during that time, versus 11% there in the S&P 500.”
Tony Robbins made $400 million in one day taking a company public
“One day I got a phone call that led to a. Fifty million dollar deal for me. And then another day, about a year later, converted that into making it in one single day, four hundred million dollars for taking the company public.”
Kyle Bass turned $30 million into $2 billion during the 2008 crisis
“So I was interviewing a gentleman that took thirty million dollars and turned it into two billion dollars in 2008, 2009, the worst economic time.”
Ultra-high-net-worth individuals allocate 47% of portfolios to private equity and real estate
“No wonder the ultra high net worth people have 47% of their assets in private equity and private real estate.”
The other half of the tape: Tony Robbins's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 159 times in 51 episodes on My First Million. 7 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Shaan Puri 116Sam Parr 20Jack Smith 9Amy Porterfield 4Andrew Wilkinson 3Nick Gray 1Mike Posner 1Jess Mah 1
Statements about Tony Robbins, by other people (7)
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”
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
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2026 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2025 22 mentions in 8 episodes 3 per episode
- $50M Poker Pro Shares Emotional Intelligence Tricks For Founders
- 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
- Just found out my neighbor’s business sold for $450M
- How to go from founder to CEO (without imploding)
- The Crazy Story of Google’s 7 Angel investors
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 55 mentions in 17 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
- 9 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 →
Appearances (1)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| Tony Robbins Changes My Life (48 Minute Coaching Session) | Jan 22, 2024 | 34m |