“It’s better to wear out than rust out.”
Richard Cumberland
"The only happy people I know are those who are working well at something they consider important."
Abraham Maslow
"Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did."
Malcolm Forbes
"The true secret of living is to keep busy."
George Burns
"No one can avoid aging, but most can opt to age productively."
M. Krets de Vries
"The years teach much which the days never know."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Like all of nature, I am the object of a slow process of decay… But I refuse to be its witness…"
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
"…the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."
Theodore Roosevelt
"…the most important predictors of vital age are satisfying work and complexity of purpose."
Betty Friedan
"If you rest, you rust."
Actress Helen Hayes
"No one grows old by living. On the contrary, people grow old by losing interest in living."
M. Krets de Vries
"Work is love made visible."
Kahlil Gibran
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rage at the close of day."
Dylan Thomas
"Retirement is the ugliest word in the language."
Ernest Hemingway
See keynote address, "The Kaleidoscope of 50+ Transitions: A New Look at
Later-Life Portfolios," by Phil Burgess at the annual meeting of the
Lincoln Financial Group in Las Vegas.
by Philip M. Burgess
Melbourne, Australia
August 15, 2007
by Phil Burgess
Prepared as background for remarks at the Marco Island 28th Annual Prayer Breakfast
Marco Island Marriott
Marco Island, Florida
February 1, 2011