Top 100 Retirement Is Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.
Hugh Hefner
#5. Retirement is a stage where an employer discards an employee that he cannot exploit further.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#6. That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations
not just business , but government service, the universities. These people don't find their jobs interesting.
Peter Drucker
#7. Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.
Warren Adler
#8. 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
#10. Knowing where you stand in your quest to accumulate enough money for retirement is an incredibly important part of the planning process.
Jean Chatzky
#11. Retirement is the last opportunity for individuals to reinvent themselves, let go of the past, and find peace and happiness within.
Ernie J Zelinski
#13. 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
#14. Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it.
Robert Breault
#15. I love the Roth IRA. Tax-free income in retirement is a truly great deal.
Suze Orman
#16. 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
#17. As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.
Earl Nightingale
#18. Your retirement is an opportunity to live out your dreams and take care of your family. Don't leave it to chance.
Chris Hogan
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. The idea that retirement is the reward for our many years of dedicated service is a very contemporary perspective.
Pamela J. Thomas
#22. 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
#23. The goal of retirement is to live off your assets-not on them
Frank Eberhart
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. Paula, your retirement is the one that every athlete dreams.
Milagros Cabral
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
Abe Lemons
#30. Retirement is fatal. Luckily, in my profession, you don't have to retire.
Joan Hickson
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. The median savings of households 10 years from retirement is a paltry $12,000; nearly one-third of those 55-64 have no savings.
Anonymous
#36. How do you decisions change if retirement is not an option?
Ramit Sethi
#37. I think the notion of retirement is just a dreadful, dreadful idea and I hope I never have to do that.
Michael Moritz
#38. Anyone with a pension or retirement is an investor in the stock market.
Brad Katsuyama
#39. 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
#40. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.
Gene Perret
#45. Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.
Betty White
#46. 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
#47. You still need to save but being debt-free in retirement is and should be a goal.
Michelle Singletary
#50. The secret to a successful retirement is to find your retirement sweet spot. The sweet spot is where your passions, what you do best, and what people will pay you to do overlap.
James C. Collins
#51. Retirement is a one-way trip to insignificance.
Mason Cooley
#52. You have to pick what you're going to be worried about. Markets are volatile, but retirement is certain.
Nick Murray
#53. 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
#54. For myself, I can't understand a life without a job. I don't know what I would do without employment. Retirement is out of the question for me.
Henry Rollins
#55. [Retirement] is a dangerous experiment, and generally ends in either drunkenness or hypochrondriacism.
Erasmus Darwin
#56. I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to do something with animals.
Sally Pearson
#58. Philosophy is a more intense sort of experience than common life is, just as pure and subtle music, heard in retirement, is something keener and more intense than the howling of storms or the rumble of cities.
George Santayana
#59. 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
#60. The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave.
Ernest Hemingway,
#61. Retirement is not the goal of a surrendered life, because it competes with God for the primary attention of our lives.
Rick Warren
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. A child born today is more likely to reach retirement age than his forebears were to live to their fifth birthday.
Johan Norberg
#67. Free ... Yes ... FREE time
Is what retirement brings
Leisure, lounging and loafing
And other lazy things
John Walter Bratton
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. I accept everything which is favorable for the people and the army; for myself, I wish to live in retirement.
Toussaint Louverture
#71. Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not.
Lord Chesterfield
#72. Whether you are just entering the workforce or nearing retirement age, planning for the future is critical.
Ron Lewis
#73. The secret of longevity ... Is to keep breathing!
Sophie Tucker
#74. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. Retirement security is often compared to a three-legged stool supported by Social Security, employer-provided pension funds, and private savings.
Sander Levin
#79. Social Security is a secure way to find great pleasure in being terribly deceived.
Ernie J Zelinski
#80. 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
#81. Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
George Burns
#82. 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
#83. How tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.
Agatha Christie
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. You know you're getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.
Joan Rivers
#89. 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
#91. That woman is happiest whose life is passed in the shadow of a manly, loving heart.
Suzanne Curchod
#92. However, there is no retirement in the spiritual life, and God intervened to upset what appeared to be Jacob's retirement.
Witness Lee
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being "given up for a younger woman" is for a woman.
Warren Farrell
#98. Retirement, it seems, is the final fling. The love boat, the trip-around-the-world.
Klaus H. Carl
#99. 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
#100. Real luxury is not working like a maniac to take an expensive vacation--it is living a life you enjoy every day.
Kathy Gottberg
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