Tony Robbins Quotes

As a mayor, my instinct is to really think about how to get something done and not to make the promise unless you have some view of the pathway. You don't have to have it all figured out, but you have to have a pathway there.

It is easy to say that something should be done. However to say what, when and how is more difficult.

I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.

Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it.

Whatever policy we adopt, there must be an energetic prosecution of it.

You can't just set the vision, take a nap, and not keep working on making your vision happen. Your intention has to be backed by work.

Once a decision is made, you should stop worrying and start working. It’s not always what we know that makes it a good decision. It is what we do to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision.

I learned how to order my thoughts, and most important, learned how to develop a plan. I discovered the power of a plan. If you can plan it out, and it seems logical to you, you can do it. And that was the secret to success.

We deliberate not about ends, but about means.

Execution gets divided into two key questions: 1) can you figure out what to do and 2) can you get it done.

I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

I don't really do without any plans. If somebody is trying to do something, you must have plans.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

I'm very much a creative person, but you've got to do the follow-through. A lot of people start out with an exciting thing and they want to take over the world, but really the people who do take over the world have a good plan of how to get there and the steps along the way.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.

When you raise issues with the President, try to come away with both that decision and also a precedent. Pose issues so as to evoke broader policy guidance. This can help to answer a range of similar issues likely to arise later.

Do, What you're going to do in longevity. Not just what happens tomorrow.

It is not always what we know or analyzed before we make a decision that makes it a great decision. It is what we do after we make the decision to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision.

What happens with a lot of leaders is that their leadership style is like ADD; they are all over the place with different ideas. They could be driving one idea forward but then move on to something else too soon.

There's a big difference between saying you are for something and saying how you're going to achieve it.

A lot of the ideas for solving many of our problems are already in place, but ideas don’t travel.