Top 72 Quotes About Retirement Age
#1. The persons hardest to convince that they're at the retirement age are children at bedtime.
Shannon Fife
#2. Cutting benefits & raising retirement age are wrong answers.
Barack Obama
#3. The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age.
Scott Bakula
#4. Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.
Maggie Kuhn
#5. In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts.
Herman Cain
#6. We have very strong succession plans across all group companies. But we do not comment on it. The retirement age is 60 years, but it does not apply to family professionals who work in the business.
Adi Godrej
#7. Well, we certainly need to raise the retirement age. I've told my 19-year-old and my 22-year-old that they're not going to be getting retirement benefits at age 62.
Ken Buck
#8. Cricket is not like a government job where retirement age is fixed at A cricketer can retire at 30 or 60; it's up to the player.
Virender Sehwag
#9. Right now, too many women who reach retirement age find themselves widowed or single, relying on their Social Security check for over half of their income.
Judy Biggert
#10. I have never favored a Social Security retirement age of 70 nor do I favor one of 68.
Howard Dean
#11. Let me tell you exactly what we would do on Social Security. Yes, we'd raise the retirement age two years and phase it in over 25 years; that means we'd raise it one month a year for 25 years when we're all living longer, and living better lives.
Chris Christie
#12. The full retirement age is 67 and the lifespan is 80, so when they first conceived Social Security, they didn't think they were going to be paying benefits for 13-15 years. That's one of the reasons why this pyramid scheme isn't working.
Joe Heck
#13. Art is one of the few careers without a mandatory retirement age.
Julia Cameron
#14. It's time for a 21st-century retirement age. If 40 is the new 20 and 50 is the new 30, why shouldn't 70 be the new 65? The last time Washington politicians tinkered ever so gingerly with the government-sanctioned retirement age, Ronald Reagan was in office and Generation X-ers were all in diapers.
Michelle Malkin
#15. People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.
Helen Hayes
#16. I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
B.C. Forbes
#17. Life's opportunities never end. God designed you to be a continual learner, a continual doer, a continual explorer and a continual giver. He never authorized a 'retirement age' from those pursuits!
Paula White
#18. A child born today is more likely to reach retirement age than his forebears were to live to their fifth birthday.
Johan Norberg
#19. The only way to save Social Security is to raise the retirement age.
Rand Paul
#20. I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business.
The day you die.
Yasunari Kawabata
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. Whether you are just entering the workforce or nearing retirement age, planning for the future is critical.
Ron Lewis
#24. 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
#25. The way to balance the budget is for Congress to cut Social Security, move the retirement age to 70, cut defense, Medicare and veterans pensions, while the states cut almost everything else. It would be tough but we could do it.
Howard Dean
#26. 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
#27. Even though I've reached retirement age, I still plan to work - writing my investment newsletter, speaking at conferences, publishing books, and producing conferences like FreedomFest.
Mark Skousen
#28. The retirement age needs to be raised. A portion of Social Security ought to be privatized, if not all. And there probably needs to be some means testing. It's a Ponzi scheme that's not sustainable.
Gary Johnson
#29. Give me a staff of honor for mine age,
But not a sceptre to control the world.
William Shakespeare
#30. When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.
R. C. Sherriff
#31. I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day.
Gene Perret
#32. In his late forties, an age when men settle to comforts and seek a firm base, Paul began his roughest travels.
John Charles Pollock
#33. The ultimate lesson is that there is no immunity, no matter our age or the size of our retirement account, from going through constant cycles of integration and disintegration in which we are humbled and hopefully set to rights with the world again.
David Whyte
#34. In 1890, nearly everyone died on the job, and if they lived long enough not to die on the job, the average age of retirement was 85.
Robert Fogel
#35. Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.
Gene Perret
#36. How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!
Oliver Goldsmith
#37. Many people plan financially for retirement - but not spiritually and emotionally.
Billy Graham
#39. There are times when the presence of more choices can make us choose things that are not good for us. For me the clearest example is that the more retirement fund options a person has, the less likely they are to save for their old age.
Sheena Iyengar
#41. 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
#42. The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.
J.G. Ballard
#43. (The subjects of What Should I Do With The Rest Of My Life) have convinced me that past failing can as easily prove preparatory as predictive. Age does not of itself limit on enable us. The choice is ours.
Bruce Frankel
#45. He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.
Dejan Stojanovic
#46. The concept of deferred gratification, or sacrificing now to save for the future, can be helpful in setting aside money in a retirement account for old age. It can also serve as an effective rationalization for life avoidance.
Chris Guillebeau
#47. I am old. I should have left before. Any fool can ride the chariots of victory. It takes judgement to get off at the right time.
Richard Sapir
#48. Since few people arrive at retirement with an understanding that this transition will involve a rethinking of who they are, an interim pattern has emerged, in which travel offers a way of fulfilling deferred daydreams of adventure while the next stage takes shape. [p. 31]
Mary Catherine Bateson
#49. There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit ... retire!
Groucho Marx
#50. If you start working in your twenties and retire at age sixty you may spend as many years in retirement as you did working.
Michael Bivona
#51. Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new.
Clint Eastwood
#52. When you retire, you switch bosses - from the one who hired you to the one who married you.
Gene Perret
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. Don't act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been.
John Anthony West
#56. 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
#57. Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not.
Lord Chesterfield
#58. If the two women feared that the coming of this date [their retirement] might give some clue to their ages, it was not an occasion for embarrassment because nobody else had been in the least interested, both of them having long ago reached ages beyond any kind of speculation.
Barbara Pym
#59. Tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age, Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburdened crawl toward death.
William Shakespeare
#60. I unwrapped my love for her like one might unwrap leftovers. Gotta eat up the old stuff first, as a cannibal might say in a retirement home.
Dark Jar Tin Zoo
#61. Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
Dwight L. Moody
#62. We have to adjust the age retirement for younger people. People of my income level are going to have to have their benefits means-tested. Democrats are going to want a simpler tax code.
Lindsey Graham
#63. The fine print in the President's Social Security proposal is that all present and future workers under age 55 will have their promised retirement benefits cut.
Mark Dayton
#64. 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
#65. Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
George Burns
#66. Old Age homes are civilization's dumpsites for human beings who it cannot exploit further.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#67. 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
#68. I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
Voltaire
#69. 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
#71. Old age is not a limitation or that your time have expired. Retirement is not that you are tired.You have more experience
Ikechukwu Joseph
#72. Starting a new retirement plan for those below a certain age is something tens of millions of Americans have already been through at work.
Mitch Daniels
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