"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"
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The intent is motivational and transactional. Robbins isn’t asking you to understand systems, luck, timing, class, or network effects; he’s asking you to adopt a behavior stack. The subtext is that originality is overrated, and that identity can be built like a product by reverse-engineering someone else’s outcomes. It’s empowerment through imitation, a kind of pop pragmatism that treats life as an A/B test.
The line also smuggles in a big assumption: that “results” are primarily caused by observable actions. That’s convenient for a coaching brand because it keeps the focus on controllables (habits, scripts, routines) and away from structural constraints that can’t be monetized as easily. It’s not cynical so much as optimized for the seminar economy: if success is copyable, then a guru can package the “what they do” into frameworks, courses, and repeatable rituals.
Culturally, it fits a late-20th-century shift toward hustle logic and personal branding, where mentorship becomes “modeling” and selfhood becomes a set of replicable moves. The phrase works because it turns ambition into a simple verb: copy. That’s both comforting and, in practice, dangerously incomplete.
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Robbins, Tony. (2026, January 17). 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. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-you-want-to-be-successful-find-someone-who-has-26402/
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Robbins, Tony. "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." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-you-want-to-be-successful-find-someone-who-has-26402/.
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"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." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-you-want-to-be-successful-find-someone-who-has-26402/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.










