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Quotes About Retirement

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
I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
~ Susan B. Anthony
I am actually retired - yes, I am retired. But I like to work. So I'm retired until someone calls me up to work.
~ Vilmos Zsigmond
My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
~ Iain Duncan Smith
It's not that I'm retired, I just no longer accept acting work.
~ Jamie Lee Curtis
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
I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
~ Ronald Reagan
I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.
~ Sean Penn
If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money.
~ Bill Gross
I never looked at hockey as work. Now that I'd finished playing, I had to go to work.
~ Bobby Orr
Retirement from work has depressed many a man and hastened his death.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire - and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
~ Al Franken
Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise.
~ Al Franken
I don't want to be throwing the football on the front yard when I'm 75. I mean, I'm not opposed to men doing that. But I don't think it's gonna work for me.
~ Alec Baldwin
There is nothing wrong with retirement as long as one doesn't allow it to interfere with one's work.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The promise of Social Security was reflected in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inter-generational compact that rewards hard work and provides retirement security.
~ Christine Pelosi
Sport is the only profession I know of that when you retire you have to go to work.
~ Earl Monroe
Like the truth, retirement can set you free. Or, like work, retirement can imprison you.
~ Ernie J Zelinski
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
It is a big adjustment but I've always loved that old saying of Jack Nicklaus: 'I retired from golf to go to work.' That sums it up for me.
~ Greg Rusedski
There's no retirement, there's just a few years of non-work by the fire with someone bringing you some tea and relative peace and playing with the grandchildren.
~ Henry Rollins
Retirement in another country is your body is too racked with pain and your hands are too arthritic from the life in the rice patty fields, so you can't work anymore.
~ Henry Rollins
My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
~ J. C. Watts
I would never say, "I'm retired." I believe if I decided to just not work, in six months everybody would just forget whether you were working or not.
~ Jack Nicholson