Frank Lowy Quotes

I'll be that guy who's 80 years old and still has a job. There is no 'retire' for me.

I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.

I don't really want to retire. I intend to go on working as long as I can because I still have a huge amount of energy.

I really don't believe in retiring as long as you can breathe.

I plan on working until I'm 105.

Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless.

Reality is, you have to work harder the older you get.

If someone says to you, 'Go to an old-folks' home,' that's kind of ridiculous, because a lot of old people are doing terrific things for society.

I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

I work because I think that I wouldn't feel good about myself unless I was contributing.

To be in any way a positive contribution, that's all anybody wants to be. It's all I've ever wanted to be. I wanted to be an artist, be a mother. You want to feel that in your life you've been of use, in whatever way that comes out.

What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?

Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's productive out there and he feels good - keep at it.

I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

There is a sort of indifference to the problem of old age. Indifference in the face of a revolution in longevity.

I always say, 'Don't retire - inspire.'

I'm against retiring. The thing that keeps a man alive is having something to do.

I never think about retiring - because you retire, you die.

You can't put a price on being proud of what you do.

The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It's almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.

Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects. If you want to live a long life, you need eustress, that is, a deep sense of meaning and of contribution to worthy projects and causes, particularly, your intergenerational family.

I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An awful lot of people feel that they're treading water -- that if they vanished in smoke, it wouldn't mean anything at all in this world. And that's a despairing and destructive feeling. It'll kill you.

I don't believe I can really do without teaching. The reason is, I have to have something so that when I don't have any ideas and I'm not getting anywhere, I can say to myself, "At least I'm living; at least I'm doing something. I'm making some contribution." It's just psychological.