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Mike Stone

Retired chemical engineer and manufacturing executive

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But it happened and it was only after I retired tired and looked back on my career that I realized the strong connection between what I did and my success. And I know that I would not be in as good a place as I am today had I not done that.

Angelique Adams, MEL podcast transcript, Angelique Adams Media Solutions, 1 January 2024 source ↗

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Toni Morrison Novelist and editor; Nobel laureate in Literature, 1993
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
Recorded PBS, Interview, PBS, 23 June 2020 source ↗
Theodore Roosevelt 26th President of the United States, 1901–1909; Governor of New York 1899–1900; Assistant Secretary of the Navy 1897–1898
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Recorded Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library source ↗
Albie Sachs Anti-apartheid lawyer; Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
So when I leave the court, I'm going to have more than enough to do, just to carry on, maybe telling something of our journey to people who didn't go through that. And also reflecting on our successes on the court, which have been enormous, but also accepting the criticisms of our failures.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 28 June 2009 source ↗
Stan Hinden Financial journalist; author of How to Retire Happy
I retired sort of willy-nilly and only after I started writing the column did I suddenly discover there were all these things out there that I hadn't learned about. And so my mission became to try to educate future retirees about what they were going to face and what they needed to know.
Recorded Michel Martin, Tell Me More, NPR, 13 March 2013 source ↗

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