Quotes from Anthony Robbins

What has to happen for you to know that your values are being met or fulfilled?

five of Tony's questions: 1. What do I really want? (Vision.) 2. What is important about it? (Values.) 3. How will I get it? (Methods.) 4. What is preventing me from having it? (Obstacles.) 5. How will I know I am successful? (Measurements.)

Knowledge is power, but execution trumps knowledge, so it's what you do from here that will matter. Yes, I will show you exactly how to reduce your fees, but you must decide to take the necessary action

People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

What dollar-cost averaging really means is systematically putting the same amount of money across your full portfolio—not just the stock portion.

toda la diferencia se reduce a la manera en que nos comunicamos con nosotros mismos y a las acciones que emprendemos.

In life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Sir John Templeton, not only the world's greatest investor but also one of the greatest human beings, shared something with me almost 30 years ago: he said that he's never known anyone who tithed—meaning the person gave 8% or 10% of what he earned to religious or charitable organizations over a ten-year period—who didn't massively grow his financial wealth.

Expense Ratio. This expense is the main "price tag"—the number they want us focused on.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process.

Don't do something—just stand there!

Remember, it's not conditions but decisions that determine our lives. Disappointment can drive us, or it can defeat us.

Remember, volatility can be your friend with dollar-cost averaging, and it can also allow for another technique that will keep you on track, "rebalancing

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain.

You want to know the banker's secret? Your interest payments will tack on an additional 100% or more to your loan value.

Recuerde que su conducta resulta de su estado, y que éste resulta de sus representaciones internas y de su fisiología, cosas ambas que puede usted cambiar en cuestión de instantes.

Transaction Costs. Transaction costs are a broad, sweeping category and can be broken down further into categories such as brokerage commissions, market impact costs (the cost of moving the market as mutual funds trade massive market-moving positions), and spread costs (the difference between the bid-and-ask or the buy-and-sell price of a stock).

In his report, titled The Retirement Savings Drain: The Hidden & Excessive Costs of 401(k)s, he calculated that the average worker will lose $154,794 to 401(k) fees over his lifetime

All men dream, but not equally. —T. E. LAWRENCE

A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.

call and put options, credit-default obligations (CDOs), and a whole host of exotic financial instruments available to traders these days. If you build up a lot of wealth, you may want to have your fiduciary look into some of these vehicles. But just realize that if you're playing this game, you're most likely no longer just an investor, you've become a speculator as well.

Because investors as a group can't beat the market, because they are the market.

The secret of living an extraordinary life is to take control of the mind, since this alone will determine whether you live in a suffering state or a beautiful state.

Okay, now you know the players that belong in your allocation buckets, and you know the key to building a winning team: diversify, diversify, diversify!