Sam Phillips Quotes

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

I'm one of those people who, as long as I am still healthy and my thoughts are more or less clear, I don't think I can retire entirely.

I plan to die at my desk.

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.

I have no plans to retire. It's the perfect combination of work and play that keeps you young. If I quit work it would be the beginning of the end for me.

I really wanted to work and become independent.

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

I'll work as long as I can. I'm happy with my life.

If my mind and body are still active, why should I retire?

Retirement is not in my vocabulary.

Retirement is a waste of time. The economy needs you!

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

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.

Work is what saves you.

After 87 pictures in 47 years, I knew when to quit.

I think we should be able to work until we want to stop, which is what I'm going to have to do.

I'm not a businessman. I could pack it in, but I like work. I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson, but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a fruit and veg shop.

We are keeping healthier and living longer and I am a good example of someone who is in the Age Concern bracket but is still working and keeping active.

From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life.

I don't know of any other form of life that gathers up all the food it needs in the first two-thirds of its life in order to do nothing in its last third of life. In a utopian presentist society, instead of working extra hard to put money in the bank, you'd be working to provide value for the people around you.

I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom.

I just see too many people retire and say, 'I'm going to take off, travel, spend time with my family' and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active, and like what they are doing, live longer.

Maybe it sounds like I'm splitting hairs here but I don't wanna perform for a living, I wanna live for a living.

People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.

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