Why he wrote his new book, Money: Master The Game; Seven Simple Steps to Financial Freedom:
“I wrote this book because I hit a [low] point in 2008. I saw all of my childhood pain in everyone around me, from my barber to billionaire clients. Nobody was unaffected by [the great recession]. Two years later everyone was talking about how everything was going to change but still, nothing changed.
I watched this documentary called “Inside Job” narrated by Matt Damon—it won all kinds of awards—a play–by-play account about how the world economic system was almost destroyed by a small group of people. The punishment was we put them in charge of the recovery and gave them all our money that they had lost.
I was so angry. At the end of that film, you are either really depressed or really angry. There were no solutions. We all got screwed and this is how it is? I thought ‘There’s got to be a solution. You know what? I have access. I have access to the most powerful financial people on earth, the most successful on earth. I have been coaching Paul Tudor Jones, one of top 10 financial traders in history for the past 21 years.’
I started the journey then, I started doing interviews. For the past two years I just went full-tilt and started doing the writing and interviewing intensely. I interviewed Nobel Prize winners, I interviewed self-made billionaires, I interviewed some of the best academics in the world who have studied to find out what really works. I wanted to write the definitive book on this that would level the playing field, that would put you back in control, that would give you basic financial stability so you would not have to worry if you take these seven steps—you can take it one step at a time and get momentum and absolutely get there.
I wanted to make sure that I would save people time. I wanted to say to them I can make you achieve your goals 30 percent faster just by changing what happening on the tax side—by doing what wealthy people do—and it doesn’t cost a bunch of money today. Things you can do today you could never do before because of electronic capacities. That was the driver and then I became obsessed about it and it didn’t matter if I liked the [writing] process or not.
What I did to help myself was have people read it to me after I wrote it so I could watch them and that’s how I made this book as strong as it is now. Because the reviews we are getting are pretty extraordinary from people who are normally pretty cynical.”
Tony Robbins Quotes We Love
“The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.”
“I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.”
“Identify your problems, but give your power and energy to solutions.”
“Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.”
“A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided.”
“New Year = A New Life! Decide today who you will become, what you will give how you will live.”
“Leaders spend 5 percent of their time on the problem and 95 percent of their time on the solution. Get over it and crush it!”
“One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.”
“The only problem we really have is we think we’re not supposed to have problems! Problems call us to higher level- – face & solve them now!”
“Your past does not equal your future.”
“For changes to be of any true value, they’ve got to be lasting and consistent.”
“I discovered a long time ago that if I helped enough people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and I would never have to worry.”
“Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.”
“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.”
“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.”
“In life you need either inspiration or desperation.”
“Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.”
“Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.”
“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”
“Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment.”
“If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you’ll achieve the same results.”
“I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.”
“It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute… that gives meaning to our lives.”
“People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals – that is, goals that do not inspire them.”
“Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.”
“We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.”
“It’s your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.”
“If you can’t, you must. If you must, you can.”
“If you don’t set a baseline standard for what you’ll accept in life, you’ll find it’s easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that’s far below what you deserve.”
“Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.”
“The only people without problems are those in cemeteries.”
“When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears.”
“The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.”
“There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it’s the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.”
“Where focus goes, energy flows.”
