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“When you’re a creative person, you have to create. Retirement isn’t part of that mentality. The mentality is, What is inspiring you next?
–The Glitter Plan: How We Started Juicy Couture for $200 and Turned It into a Global Brand by Pamela Skaist-Levy, Gela Nash-Taylor, Booth Moore
From the first chapter:
We just wanted to create something people loved and a work environment that made us happy. That’s our version of the American Dream. That’s the glitter plan.
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“Retire? Never. I love knowing the world needs me.”
“The day the doctors told my father he could no longer work was the day he accepted his death sentence.”
“In my anger for his leaving me, I somehow missed the lesson in my father’s passing. My father could not be a retiree. He could not free himself from the identity of being a successful businessman. When he could no longer hold on to that identity, he quit...When he had to give up his formula for prestige, he gave up his will to survive. I desperately tried to help him see what else he could accomplish if he redefined his goals. I didn’t see that his addiction to achievement was killing him.“
–Wander Woman: How High-Achieving Women Find Contentment and Direction