B. C. Forbes Quotes

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

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

I see what keeps people young: work!

I just don't have time to get old!

My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can.

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.

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.

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

I plan on working until I'm 105.

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

I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'

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

I'm focused on staying as healthy as I can so I can work more.

I don't want to rust out, I'd rather wear out.

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!

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

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.

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 often asked myself if I would have worked as hard if I was as ill as Steve Jobs. My answer is that my wife most likely would not have let me work, and I would have stayed home. But I am not Steve Jobs.

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

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

We have some control over when we retire. However, we have very little control over how long we will live.

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.