Tony Robbins says a stranger delivered groceries and a frozen turkey to his family one Thanksgiving, and his father refused it as charity.
“There was this tall guy standing there with 2 bags of groceries and an uncooked frozen turkey in a pan.”
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Tony Robbins says he grew up poor with four different fathers and a mother who drank and used prescription drugs.
“I had, um, 4 different fathers. My mom was a very intense and passionate woman.”
Tony Robbins says that at age 17 he bought two shopping carts of groceries for two needy families, which began his lifelong food giving.
“I took 2 shopping carts and just filled it up for 2 families.”
Tony Robbins says he set a goal about 12 years before the interview to feed a billion meals in the United States within 10 years.
“And then about 12 years ago, I decided I want to throw the f- I want to feed a billion meals here in the United States in 10 years.”
Tony Robbins says about 80% of people worked as farmers 150 years ago, compared with about 3% now.
“80% of us were farmers 150 years ago, now it's 3% and we feed the world.”
Tony Robbins says he warned Barack Obama that self-driving cars would displace about 8 million US truck, Uber and taxi drivers.
“In the next 10, 12, 13, 14 years, they're gonna become ubiquitous. And I said, There's 8 million truck drivers, you Uber drivers and taxi drivers.”
Tony Robbins says the UK made machine-breaking a capital offense in response to the Luddite riots of the 1800s.
“They passed a law in the 1st year of this, these Luddites saying, You destroy a machine, it's capital punishment.”
Tony Robbins says Ray Kurzweil has predicted artificial general intelligence by 2029, while Geoffrey Hinton gives 2030 to 2040.
“Ray Kurzweil's a good friend of mine, he's the most accurate predictor of technology in history, and he's been saying 2029 for almost 20 years is when we have artificial general intelligence.”
Tony Robbins describes life as four seasons: spring to about 21, summer from 22 to 42, fall from 43 to 63, and winter from 64 on.
“Somewhere around in roughly, and everyone's different, 21, 22 years old, you go to the next stage, 22 to 42, and that's your summertime.”
Tony Robbins says a Jim Rohn seminar cost $35 when he was a teenage janitor earning $40 a week.
“He said, $35, be like $250 in today's money, right?”
Tony Robbins says he has taken a daily cold plunge for 18 years as a way to train his mental discipline.
“and then I go in the cold plunge. And I've been doing that for 18 years now.”
Tony Robbins teaches that people are driven by six needs: certainty, variety, significance, love and connection, growth and contribution.
“eventually, they all want to get back in the game because we have 6 human needs.”
Tony Robbins says he and his wife have contributed to saving 72,000 children from trafficking.
“and so now we've, we've contributed to 72,000 children being saved.”
Tony Robbins says the anti-trafficking film Sound of Freedom, which he helped make, outsold a Disney release in one week.
“Yeah, so and we beat Disney that week, and people thought it would never happen, right?”
Tony Robbins says buying every iPhone cost about $22,000, while the same money in Apple stock on each release day would now be worth about $326,000.
“If you got an iPhone each time, somebody who's older to do it, you spent 22,000 in some change at the retail price.”
Tony Robbins says investor Paul Tudor Jones aims to win $5 for every $1 risked, so he can be wrong most of the time and still profit.
“Paul Tudor Jones' approach was 5 to 1. If I'm gonna risk $1, I wanna be certain I'm gonna make 5.”
Tony Robbins says Ray Dalio told him that holding 8 to 12 uncorrelated investments cuts risk by about 80% while keeping the upside.
“The holy grail of investing is to find 8 to 12 uncorrelated investments that you feel strongly about. If you find 8 to 12 of those, you reduce your risk 80% and keep your upside.”
Tony Robbins says Marc Benioff attended several of his seminars before leaving Oracle to start Salesforce.
“He actually came to 4, I think, or 5 of my seminars originally in a row, same seminar.”
Tony Robbins says Mark Benioff bought a home for nuns running a San Francisco food kitchen after they were evicted.
“Then he went to the nuns, we went and met them, and he went and he bought them a home for them to stay in.”