Top 100 Quotes About Retirement
#1. I don't want to live with the guilt of messing up someone's retirement fund.
Romesh Wadhwani
#2. Many Enron employees lost 70 percent to 90 percent of their retirement assets after the company indicated that it would re-state profit reports,
Elaine Chao
#3. Cutting benefits & raising retirement age are wrong answers.
Barack Obama
#4. Witnessing Panama's overnight transition from banana republic to middle-class retirement haven is like watching the Univision version of Extreme Makeover: it feels so tacky but you can't change channels because you just have to find out what happens next.
Andrew Evans
#5. We need to expand Social Security to prevent the looming retirement crisis, and we can do it simply by asking billionaires to pay their fair share.
Robert Reich
#6. Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.
Annie Lennox
#7. The things that are happening to me are unbelievable. I'm actually busier right now than when I played football. This is almost like I'm coming back out of retirement. It will be fun to see myself in the game.
Jerry Rice
#8. When you retire, you switch bosses - from the one who hired you to the one who married you.
Gene Perret
#9. Smart financial planning - such as budgeting, saving for emergencies, and preparing for retirement - can help households enjoy better lives while weathering financial shocks. Financial education can play a key role in getting to these outcomes.
Ben Bernanke
#11. The Sochi Games is not only my second Olympics, but the 'retirement stage' for me, so I want to have a greater experience than any other competition before. In the past, I had strong concepts for short programs and lyrical ones for the long. But this time, it's the other way around.
Kim Yuna
#12. SHE'D DUMPED HIM. That's all. It wasn't that bad. It shouldn't have been. It's not like they were married. It's not like she abandoned him at the altar, or made off with his best friend and their retirement savings.
People get dumped all the time.
Rainbow Rowell
#13. When I died last, and, Dear, I die
As often as from thee I go
Though it be but an hour ago,
And lovers' hours be full eternity.
John Donne
#14. For now I'm building up stories for the retirement home!
Carol Vorderman
#16. The current institutionally provided retirement plans will not cover people's needs upon retirement.
Scott Cook
#17. We knew that his retirement would come one day and we both have been planning for it by ensuring the quality of the squad
David Gill
#18. The persons hardest to convince that they're at the retirement age are children at bedtime.
Shannon Fife
#19. At Cornell University, it was well known that after five years on Wall Street, you could expect to be making half a million a year in salary and bonus; after 10 years, you could expect a million or more. I had 60 grand of university debt, and my parents had no retirement. I needed that money.
Philipp Meyer
#20. 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
#22. If you're just starting out in the workforce, the very best thing you can do for yourself is to get started in your workplace retirement plan. Contribute enough to grab any matching dollars your employer is offering (a.k.a. the last free money on earth).
Jean Chatzky
#23. 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
#24. What we should be trying to do is to encourage people to establish private retirement accounts and help them take pressure off the Social Security system.
Dennis Moore
#25. One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.
R. H. Tawney
#26. Your manner of life now is already determining your life in those years of old age and retirement, without your realizing it even, and perhaps without your giving enough thought to it. One must therefore prepare oneself for retirement.
Paul Tournier
#27. No one should expect the value of their house to appreciate quickly - counting on your home to be a significant part of your retirement saving isn't a winning strategy - but it is reasonable to expect that prices generally will rise with at least the rate of inflation for some time to come.
Mark Zandi
#28. Through good times and bad, American workers and their families have been able to rely on Social Security to provide guaranteed protection against the loss of earnings due to retirement, disability, or death.
Sander Levin
#29. My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are turning up on television, and frankly, making pictures doesn't interest me anymore. Another reason is that the film industry is in a declining state.
Randolph Scott
#30. What you should do is wait until the end of each month, and then say, "OK, how much money do I have? How much do I need? Let me send the rest to retirement."
Dan Ariely
#31. General Motors, like the other two geezers of the Old Three, is a vast retirement home with a small money-losing auto subsidiary.
Mark Steyn
#32. Retirement is not a dirty word, I am just enjoying what I am doing. If they want me to retire, then stop asking me. Ask and I will say yes unless it is something I really don't like.
Betty White
#33. Don't act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been.
John Anthony West
#35. Edmondson has incisively discussed the ways college campuses have grown akin to upscale retirement homes for the very young, where the promise of intellectually demanding courses ranks far below the lure of new gymnastic facilities.
Maureen Corrigan
#36. The difference between a retiring man and a used condom is that the condom isn't given a golden watch to inspire the illusion that it still matters to whomever that has just used it.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#38. 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
#39. Errors in decision-making lead young people to under-save for retirement, doctors to miss tumours, CEOs to make catastrophic investments, governments to engage in needless wars, and parents to irreversibly traumatize their children.
Noreena Hertz
#40. I want to take retirement rather than feel as if it's taking me unawares. Maybe even seize it joyously. But at least behold it without looking back so longingly that I turn into a pillar of regret.
Klaus H. Carl
#41. Since 1988, I have been writing steadily. I did decide a couple of years or so ago to scale back to writing one book a year - a sort of semi-retirement. But I never did have much success with that plan!
Mary Balogh
#43. You choose the wrong career, select the wrong mortgage or fail to save for retirement, markets do not correct those failings. In fact, quite the opposite often happens. It is much easier to make money by catering to consumers' biases than by trying to correct them.
Anonymous
#44. There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.
Ron Chernow
#45. A child born today is more likely to reach retirement age than his forebears were to live to their fifth birthday.
Johan Norberg
#46. As Americans, we can choose where we work and live, what we drive, which insurance plan is best for us, so why can we not give workers a choice when it comes to their retirement?
John Doolittle
#47. In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.
Mason Cooley
#48. Over time, the welfare state has become dysfunctional in a surprising way. But in a way it became a victim of its own success: It became so successful at prolonging life, that it becomes financially unsustainable, unless you make major changes to things like retirement ages.
Niall Ferguson
#49. I pant for retirement and leisure, but am doomed to inexpressible and almost unsupportable hurry.
Sarah Siddons
#50. Raising the traditional and early retirement ages will mean extending workers' taxable earning years, fueling economic growth and putting a dent in our unfunded-liabilities crisis by delaying payouts.
Michelle Malkin
#51. There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.
Robert Half
#52. 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
#53. As a subconscious attempt to add meaning or purpose to their life: The unemployed pray for a job; the retired pray for grandchildren.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#54. I have to think about the possible ramifications of an early retirement.
Ehud Olmert
#55. A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse.
Ron Chernow
#56. Live long enough and you'll come into pensions, a lovely thing. Presents every month from people you didn't know cared.
Ruth Gordon
#57. The longer you work, the more money you'll have for retirement. But the longer you work, the less time you'll have to enjoy that retirement. - Wall Street Journal
Ernie J Zelinski
#58. Free ... Yes ... FREE time
Is what retirement brings
Leisure, lounging and loafing
And other lazy things
John Walter Bratton
#59. Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people.
Buzz Aldrin
#60. 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
#61. We must ensure that every worker has healthcare and is able to save for their retirement. We must ensure that our workers have safe and health working conditions.
Leonard Boswell
#62. Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache ... unless you play golf.
Gene Perret
#63. The only way to save Social Security is to raise the retirement age.
Rand Paul
#64. A budget should be judged by whether it creates a foundation for the success of American working families striving to buy a house, or to send their kids to college, or to save a little for retirement and, if they're lucky, a vacation.
Jeff Merkley
#65. Of course, I'm sour that if (retirement) happens, I didn't get to quit on my own terms.
Peter Forsberg
#66. I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business.
The day you die.
Yasunari Kawabata
#67. When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.
Virginia Graham
#68. 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
#69. A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.
Scott Cook
#70. If you depend on your company to take care of your retirement, your future income will be divided by five. Take care of it yourself, and you can multiply your future income by five.
Jim Rohn
#71. The Retirement Savings Drain: The Hidden & Excessive Costs of 401(k)s,
Anthony Robbins
#72. Somebody is born.
Somebody goes to school.
Somebody learns to conform.
Somebody types a CV.
Somebody gets a job.
Somebody follows orders.
Somebody gets a golden watch.
And then, eventually,
Somebody dies.
And, a Nobody is buried.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#73. You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.
Pat Robertson
#74. The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little difference whether they are young or old; and they die as they have lived, with graceful resignation.
William Hazlitt
#75. Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.
Patrick Macnee
#76. Refire - an attitude of embracing the years ahead with enthusiasm rather than apathy.
Morton Shaevitz
#77. 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
#78. I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.
Hugh Hefner
#79. Indeed, I think most Americans now know that in 1935 when Social Security was created, there were some 42 Americans working for every American collecting retirement benefits.
John Shadegg
#80. The promise of Social Security was reflected in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inter-generational compact that rewards hard work and provides retirement security.
Christine Pelosi
#81. Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
Simone De Beauvoir
#82. Sugar Ray Leonard's retirements last about as long as Elizabeth Taylor's marriages.
Bob Arum
#83. It would give me a terrific sense of satisfaction to be the man who sent both Eubank and Benn into retirement. Benn doesn't need me to tell him that he's over the hill because, deep down, he knows it.
Nigel Benn
#84. I support voluntary personal retirement accounts for Social Security. It should be people's free choice.
Sharron Angle
#85. Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I'll share my secret with you: I live in a senior citizen retirement community.
Carol Leifer
#86. There are days in retirement that are the waking equivalent of a dreamless sleep, if you know what I mean.
Robert Breault
#87. I feel that one of the most important lessons that can be learned is that what we "see" may be different than what is actually in front of us.
Marc Singer
#88. 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
#89. If you start thinking about retirement in six months' time, you're already there.
Brian O'Driscoll
#90. Wake up! No one is going to save you. No one is going to take care of your family or your retirement. No one is going to "make things" work out for you. The only way to do so is to utilize every moment of every day at 10X levels.
Grant Cardone
#91. My poor sister was forced to be in the plays that I would write. We would go to my grandma's retirement building and perform 'Phantom of the Opera.'
Lindy Booth
#92. Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.
Bill Frist
#93. Our society has changed in unforeseeable ways since Social Security was created. For example, we are living longer, healthier, and more productive lives and while this is all great news, this has also placed added pressure on America's retirement system.
Norm Coleman
#94. Retirement is a stage where an employer discards an employee that he cannot exploit further.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#95. Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual's cash flow and wealth.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#96. Working hard to earn more money and then giving it away in higher taxes isn't financially intelligent, even if you do put some of it into a retirement account.
Robert Kiyosaki
#97. 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
#98. I accept everything which is favorable for the people and the army; for myself, I wish to live in retirement.
Toussaint Louverture
#99. Although we have been successful in our careers, they have not turned out quite as we expected. We both have changed positions several times - for all the right reasons - but there are no pension plans vesting on our behalf. Our retirement funds are growing only through our individual contributions.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#100. When you get to 60, the word "retirement" comes in on every conversation.
Ozzy Osbourne
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