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What is it that you like doing? If you don’t like it, get out of it, because you’ll be
lousy at it. You don’t have to stay with a job for the rest of your life, because if
you don’t like it you’ll never be successful in it.

—Lee Iacocca, chairman and CEO of Chrysler Motors

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and statesman

If we can just take a few companies, and use those as models, as examples, to
show the rest of corporate America how they can become more competitive,
that’s what I’d like to do and that’s what I hope to do.

—Henry Kravis, cofounder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can’t retire his experience.
He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

—Bernard Baruch, financier, stock investor, philanthropist, and statesman

I believe that you have to plan your retirement, not by thinking that you will be
deprived of something, but rather that something will be added to your life. You
see, you do not start from zero, you are rich with the totality of experience that
life has given to you. The past years are like a crown which you wear at the