Fritz Hollings Quotes

It’s better to wear out than rust out.

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

I just don't have time to get old!

I would rather wear out than rust out.

Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that's what I think keeps me hungry.

I'm different than another person who wants to lay back and do nothing for rest of the life and talk nonsense on ESPN... I will not do that. I want to achieve something else.

So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output.

You just have to stoke that furnace throughout the day.

In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely.

Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

I have the same attitude with work - I like to go to work, I like to work really hard I, like to give everything my all, I like to try things that are new, you know.

Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift.

An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.

I just think we want to stay healthy, and I don't think we think about a sense of urgency. We realize how old we are, we realize we've been playing this game for a long time, but you know what? We're not done yet.

I see what keeps people young: work!

Nothing will work unless you do.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

There are a ton of qualities that can help you succeed, and the more carefully a quality has been studied, the more you know it's worth your time and energy.

'Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.

There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Our responsibility in life is not to lie around and wait for things to happen. Our responsibility in life is to work. Life is getting out and getting things done. When people say they're over-the-hill at age 50, I don't understand it.

It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.