Wendi McLendon-Covey Quotes

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

I hope to work till I'm an old lady.

The fact is I am growing old too fast, alas! I feel it, and yet work I will, and may God grant me life to see the last plate of my mammoth work finished.

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

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

I always wanted to live to about 70. I thought that'd be a good age.

I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.

I am 84 years old and have not retired because I feel I have something to contribute.

I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.

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 do not really think about age. I am just sort of trying to get as much done before I get old and can't.

To retire is to die.

Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.

When we live longer, we must work a little bit longer.

Energy begets energy. If you are lazy, you will always be lazy. And if you retire at 60, you will die at 65.

J.P. Morgan, then past 70, was asked by the son of an eminent father why he [Morgan] didn't retire. When did your father retire? asked Mr. Morgan, without looking up from his desk. In 1902. When did he die? Oh, at the end of 1904. Huh! snapped Mr. Morgan, If he had kept on working he would have been alive still. Work is God's best medicine. It is God's medicine for man.

What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

We're not getting any younger.

And I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. It could be that it would take me 12 more books at six years each to get it - which means I would have to live to be 126. Which I fully intend to do, of course.

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

I'm going to live to be 110 years old!

I think the notion of retirement is just a dreadful, dreadful idea and I hope I never have to do that.

I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.

I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.