Retirement Is Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. A child born today is more likely to reach retirement age than his forebears were to live to their fifth birthday.

Johan Norberg

#6. Free ... Yes ... FREE time
Is what retirement brings
Leisure, lounging and loafing
And other lazy things

John Walter Bratton

#7. 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

#8. I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.

Hugh Hefner

#9. 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

#10. Retirement is a stage where an employer discards an employee that he cannot exploit further.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#11. I accept everything which is favorable for the people and the army; for myself, I wish to live in retirement.

Toussaint Louverture

#12. Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not.

Lord Chesterfield

#13. Whether you are just entering the workforce or nearing retirement age, planning for the future is critical.

Ron Lewis

#14. The secret of longevity ... Is to keep breathing!

Sophie Tucker

#15. We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten years. It took me all the way to the Supreme Court. And, in a 5-4 decision, they stood on the side of those who shortchanged my pay, my overtime, and my retirement just because I am a woman.

Lilly Ledbetter

#16. Death is an endless retirement with a pension of nothingness.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#17. The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on those conditions. On this principle it is always wiser to grant an honorable capitulation to a garrison which has made a vigorous resistance than to risk an assault.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#18. Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.

Warren Adler

#19. Retirement savings is probably behavioral economists' greatest success story. It is a prototypical behavioral-economics problem because saving for retirement is cognitively hard - figuring out how much to save - and requires self-control.

Richard Thaler

#20. Hang in there, retirement is only thirty years away!

Stephen Hawking

#21. Knowing where you stand in your quest to accumulate enough money for retirement is an incredibly important part of the planning process.

Jean Chatzky

#22. 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

#23. Retirement security is often compared to a three-legged stool supported by Social Security, employer-provided pension funds, and private savings.

Sander Levin

#24. We need to take steps to strengthen and mend Social Security so that its promise of a secure retirement is just as real for seniors in the future as it is today.

Herb Kohl

#25. Social Security is a secure way to find great pleasure in being terribly deceived.

Ernie J Zelinski

#26. I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

George Bernard Shaw

#27. Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries.

Saul Bellow

#28. As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.

Earl Nightingale

#29. Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

George Burns

#30. Your retirement is an opportunity to live out your dreams and take care of your family. Don't leave it to chance.

Chris Hogan

#31. Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.

John Thorn

#32. The Bohemian who tires of life, who gives up by retirement into insamity or suicide, is not necessarily one who had failed in what he wants to express.

Emily Hahn

#33. How tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.

Agatha Christie

#34. Peter Forsberg's skills and determination made him one of the most powerful forwards in the NHL during the best years of his career. Hearing of his retirement is sad news but one day every athlete has to come to this decision. He should be very proud of all he accomplished throughout his career.

Patrick Roy

#35. The only real security is not insurance or money or a job, not a house and furniture paid for, or a retirement fund, and never is it another person. It is the skill and humor and courage within, the ability to build your own fires and find your own peace.

Audrey Sutherland

#36. The idea that retirement is the reward for our many years of dedicated service is a very contemporary perspective.

Pamela J. Thomas

#37. 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

#38. Social Security is not a retirement savings plan; it is a social insurance program. It's a contract that says, as a society, we will look out for you and your family when you can no longer work.

Jeff Bingaman

#39. If a woman did not work and have the opportunity to save and invest on her own throughout her lifetime, she is often totally reliant on her family and Social Security for her retirement years.

Ginny Brown-Waite

#40. Retirement is unthinkable to me. The future is bright and very exciting and I'm looking forward to playing a part in it.

Hugh Hefner

#41. Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

Samuel Johnson

#42. 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

#43. You know you're getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.

Joan Rivers

#44. Paula, your retirement is the one that every athlete dreams.

Milagros Cabral

#45. Indeed, in general, healthy investment returns cannot be sustained in a weak economy, and of course it is difficult to save for retirement or other goals without the income from a job.

Ben Bernanke

#46. Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.

Seneca The Younger

#47. That woman is happiest whose life is passed in the shadow of a manly, loving heart.

Suzanne Curchod

#48. However, there is no retirement in the spiritual life, and God intervened to upset what appeared to be Jacob's retirement.

Witness Lee

#49. You know, even though I feel that I can still play the game, God has made the answer clear to me. Retirement is now. I have to retire as a Green Bay Packer.

Donald Driver

#50. Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it to the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money.

Jonathan Clements

#51. Undoubtedly, though, what I'm really getting at is this: Since the bridegroom's permanent retirement from the scene, I haven't been able to think of anybody whom I'd care to send out to look for horses in his stead.

J.D. Salinger

#52. Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.

Ron Lewis

#53. 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

#54. I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.

Barbara Boxer

#55. Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being "given up for a younger woman" is for a woman.

Warren Farrell

#56. Retirement, it seems, is the final fling. The love boat, the trip-around-the-world.

Klaus H. Carl

#57. 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

#58. Real luxury is not working like a maniac to take an expensive vacation--it is living a life you enjoy every day.

Kathy Gottberg

#59. A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.

James H. Douglas Jr.

#60. Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement.

Samuel Johnson

#61. The very last thing the Queen needs to do before retirement is to dub Shaun Ryder an OBE. It's decided.

M.C. O'Neill

#62. Having purpose and vision during retirement is one of the most important determinants of mental, social, spiritual, and physical well-being in later life.

Harold George Koenig

#63. 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

#64. There is nothing wrong with retirement as long as one doesn't allow it to interfere with one's work.

Benjamin Franklin

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. Anyone with a pension or retirement is an investor in the stock market.

Brad Katsuyama

#68. There's a ton of stuff in mythology and folklore that is loaded with wonderful creatures that I haven't drawn yet, but that's kind of my retirement plan. Theoretically, I won't be doing comics any longer, and I'll just be drawing and painting whatever the hell I want. Most of that will be monsters.

Mike Mignola

#69. Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.

George Washington

#70. The columbine ... is a graceful slender creature, a female seeking retirement, and growing freest and most graceful where it is most alone. I observed that the more shaded plants were always the tallest.

Dorothy Wordsworth

#71. Retirement is the menopause of an employee's mind and hands.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#72. Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has played an enormous and necessary role in keeping Latinas out of poverty.

Grace Napolitano

#73. Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.

Betty White

#74. I should hate to be employed and have no time for my needlework and my painting and playing the piano and seeing people. I find I have little enough spare time as it is." "Rubbish, caro, one can find time for important things if one makes an effort." conversation between Georgie and Lucia

Tom Holt

#75. Retirement is looking more likely as time goes on. I want to spend every second stuck to Jesse so I can slap down these brazen, desperate tarts. I'm mentally trampling again.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#76. 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

#77. Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. But most elderly individuals think they're getting their money back. So it isn't selfishness as much as a misunderstanding.

Richard Lamm

#78. Retirement is not in my vocabulary.

Betty White

#79. Retirement is a one-way trip to insignificance.

Mason Cooley

#80. The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.

Robert Kiyosaki

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

Nick Murray

#82. [Retirement] is a dangerous experiment, and generally ends in either drunkenness or hypochrondriacism.

Erasmus Darwin

#83. I work at a retirement home. I'm a CNA."
"What's that?"
"It stands for Certified Nursing Assistant."
"That sounds important," I said.
She laughed. "If changing old people's diapers is important."
I thought for a moment, then said, "It is for the old people.

Richard Paul Evans

#84. Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.

Seneca The Younger

#85. Life is continued work. It's constant learning. The whole concept of retirement I don't even buy into. We should constantly be working. Maybe not physically working, but we could be spiritually, emotionally working toward bettering ourselves and bettering the lives of others around us.

Lauryn Hill

#86. (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

#87. A good marriage is like an incredible retirement fund. You put everything you have into it during your productive life, and over the years it turns from silver to gold to platinum.

Willard Scott

#88. I'm really in retirement. My career is over. I'm just playing now and having a great time. I like to keep busy, and I'm doing what's fun for me.

Dick Van Dyke

#89. You know what is a nice thought? Retirement.

Keanu Reeves

#90. 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

#91. Retirement isn't so bad. Give me a tall drink, a plush sofa and a rerun of 'Matlock,' and you can have the rest. Matlock is my hero. He never loses.

Ken Venturi

#92. Spending and tax cut decisions must be both fiscally responsible and fair to our working families. I believe that fiscal responsibility is the way to create prosperity for America and secure the retirement of America's seniors.

Blanche Lincoln

#93. I'm not giving in to anyone else's idea of how I ought to feel and look at 70. 'Retirement' is not a word I can even visualize. I retire when I go to bed!

Carmen Dell'Orefice

#94. The key to a vibrant middle class is an abundance of jobs that pay enough so that workers can provide for themselves and their families, enjoy leisure time, save for retirement and pay for their children's education so they can grow up and earn even more than their parents.

Marco Rubio

#95. Parent in a retirement home is more likely to be visited by his grown children if they are expecting a sizable inheritance. But wait, you say: maybe the offspring of wealthy families are simply more caring toward their elderly parents?

Steven D. Levitt

#96. It has not been the style of Canadian politicians to write of their experiences, although it is the common practice for British, French, and American Politicians upon their retirement. But I have been criticized before and I expect to be again.

Judy LaMarsh

#97. Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.

Bill Vaughan

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

Mario Puzo

#99. Retirement is not the goal of a surrendered life, because it competes with God for the primary attention of our lives.

Rick Warren

#100. Lobola ("bride price") is a retired broke father's last hope to paying off his debts.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana