"The years teach much which the days never know."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The true secret of living is to keep busy."

George Burns

"…the most important predictors of vital age are satisfying work and complexity of purpose."

Betty Friedan

"Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did."

Malcolm Forbes

"No one grows old by living. On the contrary, people grow old by losing interest in living."

M. Krets de Vries

"…the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

Theodore Roosevelt

"Retirement is the ugliest word in the language."

Ernest Hemingway

"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rage at the close of day."

Dylan Thomas

“It’s better to wear out than rust out.”

Richard Cumberland

"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

"If you rest, you rust."

Actress Helen Hayes

"Work is love made visible."

Kahlil Gibran

"No one can avoid aging, but most can opt to age productively."

M. Krets de Vries

"The only happy people I know are those who are working well at something they consider important."

Abraham Maslow

Speaker Services

Reboot! author, Phil Burgess, is available for keynote presentations, executive briefings, club lectures and speeches on any of the themes of his book. Presentations have included:

The demography of aging: A global perspective.
Successful aging…what it is and how to achieve it.
Approaches to later-life work and social engagement.
Why working in later-life is important.
The history of work: From Rome and Martin Luther to Martin Luther King.
The forces shaping leisure in America.
The Golden Years: An idea whose time has passed.
Retirement, pensions, and work: An overview.
Retirement communities and successful aging.
Later-life achievers: Interesting people who died with their boots on.

Other speakers in the BooterNation network are available for specialized presentations. Click to Contact to communicate your interest in engaging Phil Burgess or to explore a program involving BooterNation messages.

Reboot!

What do you do when your career is over but your life isn't?

Phil Burgess

Making later-life work

It’s better to wear out than rust out.” That is the message of Reboot! While American culture glamorizes the “Golden Years” of endless leisure and amusement, Phil Burgess rejects retirement, as he makes the case for returning to work in the post-career years, a time he calls later life.

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