About Retirement Quotes

#1. If you start thinking about retirement in six months' time, you're already there.

Brian O'Driscoll

#2. He'd been up early all his life and though everybody said the best thing about retirement was sleeping in, he just couldn't feature it. If he found himself in bed later than six he felt like a degenerate,

T.C. Boyle

#3. If you want to be immortal, don't ever think about retirement.

Toba Beta

#4. You get old faster when you think about retirement.

Toba Beta

#5. I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away from the idea that there's something sacrosanct about retirement investments.

Ron Chernow

#6. I'm so lucky to have a career in my fifties. And to still have the desire to do it. I don't think about retirement.

Kim Cattrall

#7. 40 years old is about the time a principal dancer would start to think about retirement, but some go on to dance a little bit longer than that.

Misty Copeland

#8. The debate over Social Security should not be about how much we can cut from the program in order to balance the federal budget. The debate over Social Security should not be about raising the retirement age or limiting benefits. The debate over Social Security should be about retirement security.

Sherrod Brown

#9. If Congress wants to mess with the retirement program, why don't we let them start by changing their retirement program, and not have one, instead of talking about getting rid of Social Security and Medicare that was robbed $700 billion dollars to pay for Obamacare.

Mike Huckabee

#10. But when people age, they're not looking for a cure as much as they are for encouragement to continue. Our work here is not about curing. It's about the dignity of each person wheeled from breakfast back to their room.

Chris Fabry

#11. Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.

Gene Perret

#12. I have three commitments. Number one commitment is promotion of human value. Number two commitment is promotion of race harmony. Number three commitment is about Tibet. My retirement is the third commitment. The previous two commitments, to my death, I have committed.

Dalai Lama

#13. Sean Penn has announced his retirement from acting about 72 times.

James Gray

#14. The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.

Evelyn Waugh

#15. The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the time young children like mine are ready to retire, that rate of return will be a negative percentage.

Paul Ryan

#16. While I am flattered about the speculation of being enticed out of retirement, I'm happy with life as a bad golfer!

Chipper Jones

#17. Her feet tingled. One whole hour to forget about the leaky kitchen sink, her father's retirement party, and her mother's relentless questions about it. She closed her eyes. One whole hour to completely unwind and indulge her thoughts in something beside caterers, plumbers, and homicide cases.

Lisa Harris

#18. If retirement means laying on a beach and rubbing coco butter on your stomach, about 48 hours of that will be enough for most people. You'll want something new.

Timothy Ferriss

#19. We need the middle class to feel more confident about its prospects and about its future. We need to cut down on this anxiety that sees some people succeeding and the majority struggling - having to make choices between paying for their kids' education or saving for their own retirement.

Justin Trudeau

#20. What else am I going to do with my retirement? I just want to tell as many people about the gospel as I can." If

David Platt

#21. Retirement is the state of being able to afford to do things that you have always wanted to do but are now too old to even think about doing.

Ivan Cotter

#22. There's been a lot said about Social Security reform. What has been left out of the debate is the double tax on Social Security benefits. I believe it's time to get rid of a tax that punishes seniors and discourages work and retirement savings.

Rob Simmons

#23. Spend regularly and constantly two or three hours of the morning in study and retirement. I do not take upon me to prescribe what you shall employ yourself about. I only propose the passing two or three hours of the twenty-four in private.

David Berman

#24. No one is talking about restructuring Social Security or Medicare for current retirees or for those that are near retirement. For those under 55, the answer is let's talk about it.

Mitt Romney

#25. You realize we're looking at our future, right? Two of us in a retirement home, bitching about our catheters and heated blankets.

Abigail Roux

#26. I mean to retire, where nobody will have heard about my special skills. And conversation is mainly about the weather.

Eilean Ni Chuilleanain

#27. In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.

Brett Favre

#28. I don't even think about a retirement program because I'm working for the Lord, for the Almighty. And even thought the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is, you might say, out of this world.

George Foreman

#29. You have to pick what you're going to be worried about. Markets are volatile, but retirement is certain.

Nick Murray

#30. Retirement is like sex. Men love to talk about it but when the time finally comes they're good for about fifteen minutes then they're dying to put their tie back on.

Paula Wall

#31. Perhaps you should say there should be mandatory retirement even of members of the court, members of the federal judiciary. I'm sure there can be questions about whether one does as good work when you get into your - you know, I'm 67.

William Rehnquist

#32. Now that I've reached the ripe old age of retirement, I feel it my duty to teach you everything I've learnt about love, so listen closely. Love is like ... That's as far as I've gotten I'm afraid.

Ben Mitchell

#33. Two weeks is about the ideal length of time to retire.

Alex Comfort

#34. My son is the main shareholder of my company, and I help him explore some of those opportunities that are related to things I know about, such as energy and the environment. But I'm active because I can't think of anything else to do in my so-called retirement.

Maurice Strong

#35. The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it's called her retirement from public life but we've seen in fact it's nothing of the kind.

Anthony Holden

#36. I want everyone to know I'm coming out of retirement because it's time to free the MMA world of the virus that's known as Tito Ortiz. We've been suffering through his boring fights for too many years, and it's about time that someone beats it out of him once and for all.

Stephan Bonnar

#37. Not having to worry about money is almost like not having to worry about dying.

Mario Puzo

#38. When you are 25, 30, you know, you have no responsibility, no mortgage, no kids, no retirement to think about, nothing.

Eric Ripert

#39. The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age.

Scott Bakula

#40. Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize.

Eda LeShan

#41. It seemed to Rosa Lublin that the whole peninsula of Florida was weighted down with regret. Everyone had left behind a real life. Here they had nothing. They were all scarecrows, blown about under the murdering sunball with empty ribcages.

Cynthia Ozick

#42. Sugar Ray Leonard's retirements last about as long as Elizabeth Taylor's marriages.

Bob Arum

#43. I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.

Elizabeth Janeway

#44. Hell, I live like I did when I was 35. I don't believe in retirement groups because I don't believe in retirement. How long can I keep coaching? How about forever? I'll never walk off the field.

Sid Gillman

#45. It is estimated that raising the retirement age to 70 would cut the shortfall by about 36%. But this proposal has some drawbacks. Women and men who have worked jobs that require manual labor all of their lives may not physically be able to do work until they are 70 years old.

Steve Israel

#46. But there was something telling about that photograph, I thought; our protective glass frame shattered and now here we were, punctured with microscopic holes that might one day tear. Those holes all had names: mortgage, adolescent child, lack of communication, retirement savings, cancer.

Mary Kubica

#47. Republicans are suggesting that you take your retirement money and invest it in the stock market to take care of yourself but that leaves you with choices that you may not know anything about. The purpose of social Security is that you don't fall through the crack and find yourself destitute.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#48. Specifically, I am concerned about the long-term condition of Social Security. I am committed to ensuring that current beneficiaries and those nearing retirement face no reduction in benefits, while preserving this vital program for future generations.

Cliff Stearns

#49. Few things infuse a member of Congress with more courage than self-imposed term limits or an imminent retirement. The issues they choose to focus on in their final months say a great deal about what are really the most important issues in the country.

Tom Coburn

#50. What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet.

Keith Richards

#51. At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.

Ann Landers

#52. Liberal Democracy is all about extending choice. Give people the option to decide their retirement age, and you immediately extend their freedom in a very significant way.

Charles Kennedy

#53. I've seen people be effective, even among local teams, by offering something that improves wellbeing in a small way - people who get passionate about smart investment strategies and managing finances for retirement, for example.

Tom Rath

#54. I have to think about the possible ramifications of an early retirement.

Ehud Olmert

#55. What's just about a generation of people who rack up government debt for their own health care and retirement - while leaving their children and grandchildren to foot the bill?

Rupert Murdoch

#56. I am Retired Leisure. I am to be met with in trim gardens. I am already come to be known by my vacant face and careless gesture, perambulating at no fixed pace nor with any settled purpose. I walk about; not to and from.

Charles Lamb

#57. I am very concerned about the millions of baby boomers who are counting on the stock market to deliver them a safe, sound, long retirement. I am afraid the baby boomers who are counting on the stock market are in trouble.

Robert Kiyosaki

#58. I've always believed in the concept of retirement. I retired for the first time at age 18 ... from school. To me, retirement means doing what you want to do without worrying about getting paid for it.

Tommy Chong

#59. If we aren't profitable by December 20, I will close the business. That would leave him about $800,000, plus his retirement money and home, and he would do something else to earn a living.

Dave Ramsey

#60. Money isn't everything, but it is when you start thinking about putting money away for your retirement days.

Andre Leon Talley

#61. Modeling was another job like some of the other ones I had. Working as a cashier, I delivered newspapers, I worked in a retirement home feeding elderly people ... so I never stopped and thought about, boy, I'm a successful model.

Kathy Ireland

#62. Congratulations on your well deserved retirement,
Wishing you every happiness in the years ahead.
No lying about your age, more lying around the house
After lying much longer in bed

John Walter Bratton

#63. It's not surprising so many people end up with credit-card debts. Saving for your retirement and buying a house are difficult things, and we don't educate people about them at all.

Niall Ferguson

#64. Retirement is a work in progress. I try to figure out my day, and what I know about myself is that I need structure.

Pete Sampras

#65. If you can deal with hot emotions, then you can study for the S.A.T. instead of watching television, and you can save more money for retirement. It's not just about marshmallows.

Walter Mischel

#66. Learn the lessons of history. Don't let how you feel about your tenure at your organization drive you to make poor investment decisions that could potentially derail a successful retirement.

Marc Singer

#67. [Ed Grimley] lives in a retirement home in New Jersey. It's called the Retirement Home in New Jersey for Characters Who Were Interesting in the '80s for About an Hour. He's there with the Whiners, Gumby and Jon Lovitz's 'That's the ticket' guy.

Martin Short

#68. There's a growing trend of older Americans who are using marijuana in their retirement. That makes sense because old people are always talking about their joints.

Jimmy Fallon

#69. During high school I worked in a retirement home. I spent many wonderful hours hearing from service men and their widows about WWI.

Charles Todd

#70. Let me be clear, the discussions about Social Security are not about the retirement security of those Americans who are 55 or older - the Social Security system for those folks 55 and over will not change in any way shape of form - no ifs, ands, or buts.

Norm Coleman

#71. Pay off your mortgage before retirement, and that's one less bill you'll have to worry about when you're on a fixed income.

Suze Orman

#72. Retirement is lie sex. Men love to talk about it, but when the time finally comes, they're good for about fifteen minutes then they're dying to put their ties back on.

Paula Wall

#73. Everyone's lost a lot of money on their 401k plans. I've heard some people calling them 201k plans. So it's even more important to get people to be saving more for retirement. Behavioral economics has helped us learn a lot about how to do that.

Richard Thaler

#74. If employment really cared about employees, people wouldn't have to work until retirement comes to their rescue.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#75. Retirement? You're talking about death, right?

Robert Altman