Ben Bernanke Quotes

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

It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.

The safest refuge when dealing with urgent, ticklish problems is sought in shirking responsibility, in gaining time by the formation of Committees, with the requisite Sub-Committees to tackle the problem. It is the well-known practice of Promise, Pause, Prepare, Postpone and end by letting things alone

Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

To delay action until there Is one hundred percent certainty Is always to postpone political action forever.

Everybody’s kicking the can down the road of too much public and private debt. The can is becoming heavier and heavier…

It seemed better to delay thinking.

Postponement: The father of failure.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

I often work by avoidance.

If I don't get you now, I'll get you later.

Sometimes it is better to delay.

The resolution to avoid evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Procrastinate now, don't put it off.

I have been in Washington for 22 years and have seen us kick the can down the road. Well there is no more road to kick the can down.

The longer political leaders shy away from the tough decisions, the greater the chance that there will be a lot more of them.

This can has been kicked down the road for 60 years. Enough is enough!!!

I've kind of done everything late.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow. Like a variant of the song, Tomorrow, only it's more of the idea, the Mexican idea of mañana, you know, [singing] mañana, mañana, I love you, mañana, you're always a day away.

Later is always my first choice.

A new reign is always a time of hope; everybody is disposed to see something for his own wishes and prospects. The policy of a new Sovereign must therefore be to act in such a manner as to hurt as little as possible the amour-propre [public love] of people, to let circumstances and the force of things bring about the disappointments which no human power could prevent coming sooner or later…

If you wait until you have all the facts, then it will be too late..