retirement Quotes

From a speech at a veteran\'s retirement party: \"Today we are seeing off our dear one on his penultimate journey...\"

The financial security of all Americans - their retirement savings, their home values, their ability to borrow for college, and opportunities for more and higher-paying jobs - depends on our ability to restore our financial institutions to sound footing.

For a few years after I stopped playing people would ask me how I was coping with retirement and there would often be a slightly worried tone to their voice. But I always answered the question the same way: that if I knew retirement was going to be this good I would have quit a long time ago.

I never thought \'Sodapop Curtis\' would announce my retirement. I always thought I would be the one to announce it. I\'m a huge fan of the movie, but that caught me way off guard. I can\'t explain it.

We\'re just not ready for the retirement of the Baby Boomers. And we\'d better prepare for that.

Pickleball. Making retirement great again.

Social Security is fine for those at or near retirement today. For those receiving their checks today, don\'t worry. It\'s going to be there for you. For those that are nearing their retirement years, don\'t worry, it\'s going to be there for you. But for your kids - for your boy and my boy, and for their children, for our kids and grandkids, it\'s a real big question as to whether or not the system\'s going to be there.

There\'s a lot we can do to improve American\'s retirement security, but it\'s wrong to replace the guaranteed benefit that Americans have earned with a guaranteed benefit cut of up to 40%.

My grandmother, in her retirement home, actually has a picture of me from \'Star\' magazine on their fashion police list. I think that\'s hilarious, but if Grandma approves, then I feel like I am all good.

Getting dragged, kicking and screaming out of the ring, begging for mercy from whomever it is that fires me, and never be seen again. That\'s how I wanna go out. Haha, yeah, I don\'t want any.. hero\'s goodbye, or a big send off. I don\'t want a retirement ceremony. That\'s not how I\'m built, I just wanna disappear into the sunset and have people, \'Man, that guy was a jerk. Wow, I\'m glad he\'s gone.\'

I haven\'t quite got the hang of this retirement thing.

For many people, being asked to solve their own retirement savings problems is like being asked to build their own cars.

If you\'re not putting enough away for emergencies or retirement, making commitments in advance, such as signing up for payroll withholding, can help.

When employees are first eligible for a retirement savings plan, they should be enrolled unless they choose to opt out.

One of the difficulties in getting to the bottom of the poor prospects for retirement is that the policy and intellectual elites, including corporate leadership, who are dealing with this problem, rarely have the same difficulties as the great majority of middle-income Americans.

One of the strongest lessons I learned in doing six months of work on retirement topic was how absolutely crucial the Social Security system is for the great mass of Americans. The research of professionals and our own reporting convinced me that many millions of people are not capable of effectively managing the finances for their own retirement.

The retirement financial crisis will affect far more people than baby boomers, and certainly it will affect their children. Most of the retirees and near-retirees with whom we talked, said that they were extremely reluctant to have to depend on their children financially, or to think of moving in with their children. But the mere fact that they were discussing those issues indicates that some of them have already figured out that that is what lies ahead for them.

Social Security is the foundation stone of that kind of retirement security. It not only needs to be strengthened in order to make sure it\'s there for younger baby boomers and Generations X and Y, but it probably needs to be strengthened and expanded because the retirement benefits now being offered by most employers are not sufficient to support middle-income Americans in their long years of retirement.

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.

Social Security is the only thing most Americans can count on to keep them out of poverty during retirement.

For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discrimination has undermined their right to a retirement with dignity.

Woodcutters will not dismiss the one who has broken the most wood. (Anatoly Yurkin)

The property boom has made us all feel wealthy, but unfortunately it has lulled many of those nearing retirement into a false sense of security.

In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It's either that or buy a new golf ball.

Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese.

It is one of the enjoyments of retirement that you are able to drift through the day at your own pace, easy in the knowledge that you have put hard work and achievement behind you.

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

Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, \'Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever.\'

Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf.

Like, people are less likely to invest in their retirement when they have more options in their 401K plans than when they have fewer.