Henry Hazlitt Quotes

By ignoring tomorrow, we undermine today.

Today is the tomorrow you were promised yesterday.

IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.

To help [people] understand that what you shortcut today, cannot be made up tomorrow. So it's like, I'm not going to do anything today, and I'm going to do the wrong thing today and somehow tomorrow it will get a lot better."

You realize that we over-exaggerate yesterday, we over-estimate tomorrow and we underestimate today. We think, "Well, I'm going to kill time," "I'll get back to this tomorrow."

Every tomorrow is determined by every today.

There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we must do that which is of greatest importance. Let us not procrastinate those things which matter most.

People say, 'Are you afraid? Are you scared for your life?' and I tell them: If I choose today to tone it down, if I choose today to shut up, tomorrow me, you, and all of us will be forced to.

Never do today what intuition says to do tomorrow.

Do today what you want for your tomorrows

What is it that makes us suppose that we can more easily do twice tomorrow what we didn't do once today!

If we saw tomorrow's newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen.

The only adequate preparation for tomorrow is the right use of today.

Yesterday, today was tomorrow. And tomorrow, today will be yesterday.

Whatever can be done another day can be done today.

Yesterday is yesterday. If we try to recapture it, we will only lose tomorrow.

Leave for tomorrow what you can't do today.

These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: "I see where I can make an annual cut of $3.47 in my meat budget." But they have no slow, big ideas.

The greatest of all insights is that we cannot be tomorrow what we do not do today.

When I made that statement that the person discovers the secret of their success by their daily agenda, all of a sudden it hit me that if I could teach people to make today count; if I could really teach them what they need to do today to have a good day, that tomorrow would really take care of itself.

If you've got a today, don't wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same day.

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

In economics, you always want to ask 'And then what?'