Quotes and Sayings about Retirement
"I am not close to retirement. I still have a lot more that I can achieve. There are younger guys coming into F1, but I am not old and I'm not finished."
- Jean Alesi
(Related: Old, Retirement)
"The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age."
- Scott Bakula
(Related: Age, Business, Retirement)
"Americans are not saving enough for retirement."
- Tammy Baldwin
(Related: Americans, Retirement)
"Younger workers should have more freedom to build their retirement nest egg."
- Gresham Barrett
(Related: Freedom, Retirement, Workers)
"Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement."
- Steve Bartlett
(Related: Ability, Advice, Americans, Investment, Retirement, Will)
"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
(Related: Being, Holiday, May, Rejection, Retirement)
"Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness."
- Ambrose Bierce
(Related: Women, Idleness, Leisure, Retirement, Sin)
"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
(Related: Age, Women, Income, Now, Retirement, Right, Security)
"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
(Related: Family, Work, Society, Retirement, Security, Will)
"The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years."
- Neal Boortz
(Related: Government, Purpose, Wealth, Americans, Needs, Retirement, Security, Years)
"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
(Related: Health, Healthcare, Retirement, Workers)
"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
(Related: Retirement)
"I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects."
- David Brainerd
(Related: God, Necessity, Self)
"I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents."
- Carol Moseley Braun
(Related: Children, Parents, Responsibility, Retirement, Security)
"Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room."
- Anthony Burgess
(Related: Peace, War, Americans, Care, Leisure, Living, Retirement, Will)
"Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples."
- George Burns
(Related: Retirement)
"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
(Related: Age, Nation, Order, Retirement, Security, Taxes)
"As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything."
- Drew Carey
(Related: Government, Life, Financial, Goals, Retirement, Security, Want)
"A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse."
- Ron Chernow
(Related: Money, Retirement)
"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
(Related: Fear, Baby, Retirement, Will)
"We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario."
- Ron Chernow
(Related: Experience, Work, People, Retirement)
"I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away from the idea that there's something sacrosanct about retirement investments."
- Ron Chernow
(Related: Idea, Retirement, Security)
"One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment."
- Chris Christie
(Related: Health, Life, Benefits, Care, Career, Investment, Old, Retirement, State, Will, Years)
"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
(Related: Society, America, Example, Living, News, Pressure, Retirement, Security)
"Let me be clear, the discussions about Social Security are not about the retirement security of those Americans who are 55 or older - the Social Security system for those folks 55 and over will not change in any way shape of form - no ifs, ands, or buts."
- Norm Coleman
(Related: Change, Americans, Retirement, Security, Will)
"Well, today people have to be self-reliant if they want a secure retirement income."
- Scott Cook
(Related: People, Income, Retirement, Self, Today, Want)
"Today more people believe in UFOs than believe that Social Security will take care of their retirement."
- Scott Cook
(Related: People, Care, Retirement, Security, Today, Will)
"The current institutionally provided retirement plans will not cover people's needs upon retirement."
- Scott Cook
(Related: People, Needs, Retirement, Will)
"A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now."
- Scott Cook
(Related: Americans, Now, Poverty, Prosperity, Retirement, Will)
"I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement."
- Mary Crosby
(Related: Retirement, Vacation)
"The Band was always famous for its retirements; we'd go and play and get a little petty cash together, and then not see each other till it was time to fill our pockets up again."
- Rick Danko
(Related: Time, Famous, Play)
"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
(Related: Age, Benefits, Future, Present, President, Retirement, Security, Will, Workers)
"President Roosevelt, the author of Social Security, was the first to suggest that, in order to provide for the country's retirement needs, Social Security would need to be supplemented by personal savings accounts."
- John Doolittle
(Related: Country, First, Needs, Order, President, Retirement, Security)
"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
(Related: Work, Americans, Choice, Retirement, Workers)
"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
(Related: Health, Family, Home, Discipline, Community, Independence, Job, Retirement, Welfare)
"I believe in financial retirement. I don't necessarily believe in physical retirement."
- Jerry Doyle
(Related: Financial, Retirement)
"I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises."
- Chaka Fattah
(Related: Work, People, Benefits, Promise, Retirement, Risk, Security, Widows, Will)
"Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book."
- Geoffrey Fisher
(Related: Retirement)
"I think retirement's for old people. I'm still in the business, thank you. I have a young child of nine years old, and I want to live as long as I can to see him grow up. I'm enjoying my life and I want to stick around for as long as I can."
- Harrison Ford
(Related: Life, Business, People, Old, Retirement, Want, Years)
"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
(Related: Thought, Retirement, World)
"I don't want people losing respect for me as a player. I want to go out in every game and perform to the highest level. I have no retirement plans. I've had a lot of injuries but I want to continue playing."
- Robbie Fowler
(Related: People, Losing, Respect, Retirement, Want)
"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
(Related: Retirement, Words)
"Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements."
- Bill Frist
(Related: Power, Future)
"The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue."
- David Gill
(Related: Retirement, Talk)
"The retirement system that is in place for members of Congress and other federal workers features what is known as the Federal Employment Retirement Plan."
- Virgil Goode
(Related: Congress, Retirement, Workers)
"Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare."
- William Greider
(Related: People, Healthcare, Retirement, Wages)
"If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder."
- William Greider
(Related: Finance, Money, Country, Healthcare, Income, Wage, Will)
"Americans believe that people should work hard and get ahead on their own, but when disaster strikes and they need help with retirement or disability, Americans as a whole should come to their aid."
- Jacob Hacker
(Related: Work, People, Americans, Disability, Disaster, Help, Retirement)
"There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working."
- Robert Half
(Related: Retirement)
"I wish that my husband's friends had left him where he is, happy and contented in retirement."
- Anna Harrison
(Related: HusbFriends, Retirement)
"I had a very bad torn groin, my abdomen right through my legs. I was finding it really hard to get in the ring and run around and function at a decent rate. Then they had the idea that it might be better to do a retirement thing."
- Owen Hart
(Related: Idea, Retirement, Right)
"People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me."
- Helen Hayes
(Related: Age, People, Rest, Retirement)
"However, the Administration's plan to privatize Social Security will undermine retirement security for all Americans by cutting guaranteed benefits by more than 40 percent, and risky private accounts won't make up for the loss of benefits for millions of Americans."
- Ruben Hinojosa
(Related: Americans, Benefits, Loss, Retirement, Security, Will)
"At their core, Americans all want the same basic things: a quality education for their children, a good job so they can provide for their families, healthcare and affordable prescription drugs, security during retirement, a strongly equipped military and national security."
- Ruben Hinojosa
(Related: Education, Quality, Americans, Children, Drugs, Healthcare, Job, Military, National security, Retirement, Want)
"I only work every couple of years. I go into retirement between films."
- Paul Hogan
(Related: Work, Retirement, Years)
"The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it's called her retirement from public life but we've seen in fact it's nothing of the kind."
- Anthony Holden
(Related: Life, End, Fact, Nothing, Public, Retirement, Separation, Space, Speech)
"As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people - the war in Iraq, affordable health care, a sensible energy policy, quality education for our children, retirement security, and a sound and fair fiscal policy."
- Chris Van Hollen
(Related: Education, Health, War, Quality, People, Policy, American, Care, Children, Congress, End, Energy, Iraq, Needs, Retirement, Secur)
"Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system."
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
(Related: Leadership, Action, Survival, Baby, Country, Retirement, Security)
"I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested."
- Steve Israel
(Related: Retirement, Security)
"The President and I agree that Social Security needs to be preserved so that we can ensure that all Americans receive the retirement benefits they've been promised. But we disagree as to how best to fix the system."
- Steve Israel
(Related: Americans, Benefits, Needs, President, Retirement, Security)
"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
(Related: Age, Men, Women, Work, Jobs, Labor, May, Old, Retirement, Years)
"For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men."
- Steve Israel
(Related: Men, Women, Retirement, Security)
"The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc."
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
(Related: Life, Career, Will)
"No, I don't belong to a retirement community."
- Sally Kellerman
(Related: Community, Retirement)
"Social Security is the very foundation of retirement security for millions of Americans."
- Sue Kelly
(Related: Americans, Retirement, Security)
"Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes to our retirement benefit system."
- Sue Kelly
(Related: Government, American, Promise, Retirement, Years)
"I wanted to start a proper academy and recruit juniors from all over Pakistan following my retirement after the World Open in 1993 but there was no support."
- Jahangir Khan
(Related: Open, Retirement, Support, World)
"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
(Related: Future, Promise, Retirement, Security, Today)
"Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens."
- Charles Kuralt
(Related: Society, Time, Work, Help, Retirement, School, Trying, University)
"I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security."
- Mary Landrieu
(Related: Effort, Retirement, Security)
"The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off."
- Abe Lemons
(Related: Day, Retirement, Trouble)
"Since Social Security faces a large gap between what it promises younger workers and what it can afford to pay them, private savings will likely need to play a larger role in retirement planning for younger workers."
- Ron Lewis
(Related: Faces, Planning, Play, Promises, Retirement, Security, Will, Workers)
"Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans."
- Ron Lewis
(Related: Education, Awareness, Habits, Help, Participation, Retirement)
"Though Congress continues to explore possible solutions to ensure social security solvency, everyone must take personal responsibility to prepare their own retirement savings accordingly."
- Ron Lewis
(Related: Congress, Responsibility, Retirement, Security)
"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
(Related: Education, Financial, Americans, Attention, Healthcare, Retirement)
"Whether you are just entering the workforce or nearing retirement age, planning for the future is critical."
- Ron Lewis
(Related: Age, Future, Planning, Retirement)
"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
(Related: America, Decisions, Tax, Prosperity, Responsibility, Retirement)
"Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty."
- Zoe Lofgren
(Related: Americans, Poverty, Retirement, Security)
"I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City."
- Robert MacNeil
(Related: May, Retirement)
"When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market."
- Barbara Mikulski
(Related: Old, Promises, Retirement, Security)
"Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market."
- Barbara Mikulski
(Related: Promises, Retirement)
"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
(Related: Age, Life, Purpose, Old, Preparation, Retirement, Will)
"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
(Related: People, Help, Pressure, Retirement, Security, Trying)
"The pain of retirement means loss."
- John Murray
(Related: Loss, Pain, Retirement)
"Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement."
- Grace Napolitano
(Related: Retirement, Security)
"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
(Related: Formula, Income, Poverty, Retirement, Security)
"Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges."
- Russell M. Nelson
(Related: Death, Life, Contemplation, Help, Retirement)
"It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label."
- Barack Obama
(Related: Family, Health, Work, Labor, Retirement, Security, Today, Wage)
"I need to retire from retirement."
- Sandra Day O'Connor
(Related: Retirement)
"The President has no real plan to address the fiscal challenges arising from the retirement of the baby boom generation, let alone a plan to fix Social Security."
- Jack Reed
(Related: Baby, President, Retirement, Security)
"Perhaps you should say there should be mandatory retirement even of members of the court, members of the federal judiciary. I'm sure there can be questions about whether one does as good work when you get into your - you know, I'm 67."
- William Rehnquist
(Related: Work, Court, Questions, Retirement)
"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 forty percent or more."
- Harry Reid
(Related: American, Americans, Retirement, Security, Wrong)
"The easy way out is to approve an early retirement plan one year but not pay out sick and vacation time to deserving employees until three years later. Unfortunately, later is now."
- Jodi Rell
(Related: Time, Employees, Now, Retirement, Vacation, Years)
"I tell people retirement isn't what you think. You are going to sit around and waste your life, you can only golf so much. To stay young, you have to stay in the mix."
- Ron Rice
(Related: Life, People, Golf, Retirement, Waste)
"I've enjoyed my retirement."
- Darrell Royal
(Related: Retirement)
"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
(Related: Time, People, Negative, Children, Retirement, Security, Will)
"It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement."
- Gabriela Sabatini
(Related: Retirement, Years)
"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
(Related: American, Americans, Benefits, Now, Retirement, Security)
"Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired."
- John Shadegg
(Related: Benefits, Elderly, First, Tax, Germany, Retirement, Security, Workers)
"But with a rate of return of 1.6 percent or less, or a negative rate of return, our children and our grandchildren, if we do not make changes, will in fact not have a secure retirement. Indeed, they will not have the funds when they go to retire to even minimally get by."
- John Shadegg
(Related: Negative, Children, Fact, Retirement, Will)
"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
(Related: Time, Work, Benefits, Debate, Tax, Reform, Retirement, Security)
"The 1993 Social Security tax penalizes seniors who have planned for their retirement through savings, investment and hard work. That's wrong, and that's why the double tax on Social Security must end."
- Rob Simmons
(Related: Work, End, Tax, Hard work, Investment, Retirement, Security, Wrong)
"We have a rare and perhaps small window of opportunity to set partisan differences aside, and attempt to achieve what many in recent years have felt was unreachable - greater retirement security for ourselves and our children."
- Gordon Smith
(Related: Opportunity, Children, Retirement, Security, Years)
"We need to build on the success of Social Security by developing bold and innovative ways for Americans to build wealth and save for retirement. I believe we can work together in a bipartisan manner to accomplish these goals."
- Debbie Stabenow
(Related: Success, Work, Goals, Wealth, Americans, Retirement, Security)
"Social Security is not just the foundation of America's retirement dignity and security, it ensures the economic stability and strength of our families and our state's economy."
- Debbie Stabenow
(Related: Strength, America, Dignity, Economy, Retirement, Security, Stability, State)
"Privatizing Social Security doesn't make sense, and it's out of step with the fundamental value of ensuring that after a life spent working hard and contributing to the greatness of our nation, every American should have a secure retirement."
- Debbie Stabenow
(Related: Life, Greatness, American, Nation, Retirement, Security, Sense, Value)
"My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica."
- Willie Stargell
(Related: Baseball, First, Job, Retirement)
"Specifically, I am concerned about the long-term condition of Social Security. I am committed to ensuring that current beneficiaries and those nearing retirement face no reduction in benefits, while preserving this vital program for future generations."
- Cliff Stearns
(Related: Benefits, Future, Generations, Retirement, Security)
"Maybe forced retirement isn't necessary after all."
- Ben Stiller
(Related: Retirement)
"It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself."
- Henry L. Stimson
(Related: Approval, Army, Country, Retirement)
"I'm not in retirement. I just don't want to work so much, and I don't get that many offers any more."
- Max von Sydow
(Related: Work, Retirement, Want)
"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
(Related: Death, Nature, Work, Planning, Play, Reality, Retirement, Today)
"The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt."
- William Vickrey
(Related: Government, Ability, Debt, Desire, Longevity, Retirement)
"First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men."
- Ginny B. Waite
(Related: Men, Women, First, Poverty, Retirement, Years)
"On the other end of the spectrum, these women who do live long enough to collect Social Security face the challenge of being disproportionately dependent on the Social Security system for retirement income."
- Ginny B. Waite
(Related: Women, Being, Challenge, End, Income, Retirement, Security)
"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 B. Waite
(Related: Family, Work, Opportunity, Retirement, Security, Woman, Years)
"Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites."
- Diane Watson
(Related: Men, Women, Income, Retirement, Security)