Gavin Newsom Quotes

Retirement is just not in my DNA.

No, because retiring is stopping. If I wanted to stop, I would have stopped.

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'll continue working as long as people want to hire me.

You better get as much work as you can now because, once you get over 40, it’s over.

Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.

My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.

I like being in the workforce; it keeps me grounded.

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

The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it.

Getting fired is what happens to a manager sooner or later.

I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday.

I don't know the difference between working and not working.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

I see what keeps people young: work!

I knew that everybody could be replaced. Nobody lasts forever. And if you work for somebody, he's certainly got the privilege and the right to fire you.

Work is life. Work is opportunity.

I'm really excited that I'm able to work again.

I've never seen someone work for a salary.

I don't believe in retirement.

We want to encourage those who are able to work, no question.

You have turned me out; you have turned me out.

I've never been fired from an acting job.

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.