Sumner Redstone Quotes

I never wanna have a time where I'm on the big lawn just sitting back smoking cigars and drinking lemonade. I wanna work forever. Until I die. I wanna die on the way to a show.

For 42 years, I worked nonstop from 7 A.M. to 5 P.M., day in and day out.

I must be doing something right. I've been around for a long time.

I'll be working until I die.

I have earned enough to take it a bit easier now.

If you stick around long enough and you do enough of the right things, you get seen in a largely positive light.

I used to make my manager Jamie not tell me where I was going to be the next day, because I was so afraid of flying and of anything. But now I love flying, I love working hard, I love being around the world.

Certainly since then many people have taken a lot of those ideas and ridden them for years and years and made careers out of them. Part of that is willingness to do the kind of work that I wasn't willing to do. Get into a van and cover the country.

I hope that I'll be hot for a long time so I can make a lot of money, I can retire early, and just travel. Hopefully that will happen.

Because, you know, it's never a hard work when you enjoy yourself. Look, I've been here since 57 years, and I don't have to explain why I've stayed so long. I always enjoyed it.

I played for 30 years, 20 with England and I did it by setting goals.

Most people don't hold a job for 45 years. They pass on or want to retire. I don't want to retire. My real goal is to do 50 years on 'Sesame Street,' and I only got 4-and-a-half years to go.

Dolly Parton... I love being around that woman! I worked really hard to keep up with her.

I'm having the time of my life and the fact that I'm still working - how lucky can you get? I'm 90 years old and still able to work as much as I do. That's a privilege.

That just seems like a tough thing to do... just work in the middle of a company for your entire life. You just do the same thing out of college until you're 60, and then you retire.

I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.

I don't have to justify myself. I work a lot and I earn a lot.

I did 21 years of hard labor in the NBA, invested my money right, so I'm set. I earned the right to relax and enjoy, you know?

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

For 17 years, I played at the highest level.

I'll know when to retire when I don't want to push myself anymore.

I've always said I'm gonna work the road as hard as I can 'til I'm 50, then I might slow down a little bit.

I want to retire as champion, and I will make that happen.

My band and I sometimes can't believe where we are in the world and what we're doing. But I'm very privileged to be in this position.

When I am retired I will know how good I was.