Greg Gianforte Quotes

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

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

I don't believe in retirement.

Retire? I don't know what that word means. As long as a man is able to work and he's productive out there and he feels good - keep at it.

Our responsibility in life is not to lie around and wait for things to happen. Our responsibility in life is to work. Life is getting out and getting things done. When people say they're over-the-hill at age 50, I don't understand it.

To retire is to die.

I start getting bored and misbehaving if I don't work hard. It's fine when you're younger - you go out a lot and muck around with your mates and drink and stuff - but I'm a bit over that now.

When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty, some degree of asceticism is inevitable.

J.P. Morgan, then past 70, was asked by the son of an eminent father why he [Morgan] didn't retire. When did your father retire? asked Mr. Morgan, without looking up from his desk. In 1902. When did he die? Oh, at the end of 1904. Huh! snapped Mr. Morgan, If he had kept on working he would have been alive still. Work is God's best medicine. It is God's medicine for man.

Tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age, Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburdened crawl toward death.

I grew up on a farm and I always learned when you work you go forward, you don't stop and say, well, I'll take a break. You always go forward and get the job done.

When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.

No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.

Let us love God my brothers, let us love God. But let it be with the strength of our arms and the sweat of our brow.

I've seen it over the years, the more intellectual they are, the more work they don't want to do. You have to do both, you have to be able to put in the graft.

The only thing that could pull me away, was hard work.

I've really learned to compartmentalize the different parts of my life. I work really hard.

We have to do our jobs better, more tirelessly and stop whining about it.

Division of labor is a justification for sloth.

In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler.

Everybody works . . . . That's what life is. Work and a little play and a lot of prayer.

Work is the keystone of a perfect life. Work and trust in God.

I am always on the job.

Retirement is just not in my DNA.

Retirement is a very subjective thing. There are guys I know who retire and they're very happy and they never miss work at all. I can't see myself retiring and fondling a dog every day. I like to get up and work and go out. I have too much energy or too much nervous anxiety or something. So I don't see myself retiring. Maybe I will suddenly get a stroke or a heart attack and I will be forced to retire, but if my health holds out I don't expect to retire.