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Originally posted by quiet
one of my high school friends dad was hardcore into Tony Robbins. He was a car salesman.
he had this one room in house completed filled with Robbins shit: books/tapes/videos/ everything. kinda creepy 
always makes me think Annette Benning in American Beauty, selling houses and listening to movitational tapes in her Mercedes SUV lol.
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ROFL! So true... and a great movie.
Back on topic, Tony Robbins and Scientology are compared often because both "Personal Improvement" programs are similar in that they both borrow 90% of their techniques from popular psychology, then charge thousands of dollars to rehash these psychological techniques as "new ideas". Personally, I see Scientology as being quite evil (they want to bilk their followers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, to ultimately reveal that our ancestors are clams, and we're all full of thousands of disembodied space aliens (I'm not making that up)), while Tony Robbins is just a guy out making a buck (he's just looking for a few grand from each follower).
Both approaches can indeed motivate someone looking for a little motivational push, as they are based on commonly accepted psychological techniques that do work, but neither program is with over a few hundred bucks in total. Hell, all that info is available for free on the net anyhow.