From the podcast · Episode 4
“I don’t want to leave any juice in the lemon.”
Howard Prigosin · retired 27 years
Howard retired at 62 and a half. He is 89 now. Ask him how he filled the decades and he does not describe a plan. He describes showing up: a racquetball game four mornings a week, golf on Mondays with a group of retired teachers, two car clubs, and a standing six o’clock dinner with Anne, his wife of sixty-seven years.
His advice is four words long, and he has earned every one of them: you have got to keep moving. He watched his own father retire at 65, sit down on the porch, and be gone within five years, and decided early that was not the way to go.
“An ill wind blows for the ship without a port of destination. If you don’t know where you’re going, you’re never going to get anywhere.”
One of Howard’s universal truths