Tony Robbins Quotes

I've been very, very careful to tell people what I am qualified to talk about and what I'm not qualified to talk about.

People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.

I'd just make sure with anything I say I know what I'm talking about.

Musicians always respected me because they knew I'm a huge music lover and I know what I'm talking about.

So when they say I'm a low-level systems administrator, that I don't know what I'm talking about, I'd say it's somewhat misleading.

The reason why the simpler sort are moved with authority, is the consciousness of their own ignorance; whereby it cometh to pass that having learned men in admiration, they rather fear to dislike them than know wherefore they should allow and follow their judgments. Contrariwise with them that are skilful authority is much more strong and forcible; because they only are able to discern how just cause there is why to some men's authority so much should be attributed.

Know what you're talking about.

As a physicist, I can state that none of the 18 physicists who signed the Statement works in this field; nor to my knowledge has ever published a paper on this subject.

I have a credibility on the subject that most people don't.

I'm not a relationship expert. I'm an expert on manhood.

If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.

You don't need a foreign policy expert to tell you empty threats and hollow promises don't work. Ask any parent of a rebellious teenager. If you don't make good on the threats, you're asking for worse behavior next time.

Who's to say who's an expert?

I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.

I don't Twitter or blog. I'm bad at small talk, and don't have good 'chat'. Talk to me about publishing, and I can go on for hours.

We convince by our presence.

Success depends on three things: who says it, what he says, how he says it; and of these three things, what he says is the least important.

[Woodrow Wilson] could state a principle better than the expert from whom he had borrowed it.

The coin of the realm of leadership is trust and confidence.

Believe one who has proved it. Believe the expert.

Turning Intellect Into Influence

One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.

Democrats, myself included, tend to respect and value expertise and find that people who have established a record of accuracy and developed a model that's proven to be beneficial over time should be people accorded great deference when they opine on a topic that they have demonstrated past mastery over.

When you pretend to be an authority on everything, it forces your subordinates to defer to your opinion - which may not be the most informed in the room. If you have humility concerning the gaps in your experience or ability, it allows others to shine.

If you want to know what the DJ is playing, just ask. You don't have the right to stick your head in front of my screen as if you're an expert leaning over the shoulder of the apprentice.