Sam Levenson Quotes

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer.

A New Year's resolution that I can never keep? To be able to make decisions.

I was just a start-and-stop guy. I could never really follow through on anything that I started.

My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.

I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?

My biggest regret could be summed up in one word, and that's procrastination.

This is the question I want everyone to ask yourself every single day when you come up with something you feel that needs to be done: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who?

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

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

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

They are no longer going to serve you well. You have to commit. I think the biggest word is commit. I hear women say to me all the time, and men - I want to, I want to.

Successful people understand the value of time. Once they commit to doing something, they would never cancel.

Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would be better for us to lose weight, or get fit, or spend more time with our children. The problem is that a resolution is generally easier to break than it is to keep.

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

I have to watch out for being lazy.

To succeed today, you have to set priorities, decide what you stand for.

January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Year's resolutions. February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken.

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

I would step into a place of being lined up with a sense of purpose and my inner compass, and everything was going in the same direction. Then I'd get lazy and get off the track. And then things would start to fall apart, and I'd back up and get it together again.

We procrastinated in the U.S., it's true. And we are changing that.

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Do it tomorrow; you’ve made enough mistakes today.

At SBI, we say that if you need a project to be done, you need to be determined that it needs to be done, put a deadline, and it will get done.

I never talk about work in progress because once I talk about it I don't do it anymore.