Quotes About Retirement

When some fellers decide to retire nobody knows the difference.

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

I enjoy waking up and not having to go to work. So I do it three or four times a day.

My ambition is to not have to work any more. In 10 years I want to stop, and I want to be living with my family, taking care of my house. I want to be a housewife.

The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.

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

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.

Buy your freedom. Work really hard when you're young, save every penny, make a lot of money, and retire at 40, or 30 if you get lucky.

Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.

Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work.

Even when I retired, there was part of me that didn't want to retire. But once you decide it's time to move on then you have to stick with it.

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

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.

Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It's got labels on it - OAP, retirement - and I just wanted to take stock. I wanted to be in my greenhouse at home and at least give myself the opportunity of not working again.

If only the majority of the wealthiest top 10 percent of Americans own stock directly - which does not include pension and retirement accounts - then the divide between rich and poor is likely to expand.

A default on our debts as a result of not meeting our obligations would be a disaster for the stock market, and Americans would see their retirement funds shrivel up.

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

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.

In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.

If you were to just design the perfect retirement plan, you would own the stock market or you would own the bond market. You would get all the costs or all that you possibly could out of the system. So on an annual basis, if the market went up 8 percent, you would get 7.8 or 7.9 percent.

Do I want to see people take their Social Security payments and put them into private accounts, open up an eTrade account and go into the stock market? Absolutely not.

Government pensions, built into law and mostly protected from stock market vagaries, are the envy of the private sector.

I would advise someone who has just retired to be something in the broad range of 50/50 stocks and bonds.

Money you won't need to use for at least seven years is money for investing. The goal here is to have your account grow over time to help you finance a distant goal, such as building a retirement fund. Since your goal is in the future, money for investing belongs in stocks.