Quotes About Retirement

An independent Scotland could afford pensions full stop - after all, it is our taxes and national insurance contributions that fund them now.

Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.

Social Security may be the most beloved of all the government's programs, partly because it requires so little thinking. You pay taxes while you work, then you and your spouse collect until you die.

I respect public employees and school teachers. They deserve a secure retirement.

When I finish as the host of 'Jeopardy!' I'm going to go up to Taft in central California. They have a small college there that teaches you about oil drilling.

It's not easy to retire. No one teaches you how. I found that out when I tried it the first time. I'm not a quitter.

I had no intention of getting back into politics. I was teaching at Bowdoin and happily retired from politics.

Chris Boardman was my first teammate and my first roommate. I saw him finish his career with an hour record and thought, 'Yeh, what a way to go out!'

I make fun of one of my teammates because she's like, I'm going to retire.' And that was after the Beijing Olympics. I don't know. I don't want to put all of my eggs in that basket because who knows what the future holds.

Over the years, I've had teammates who decided to hang it up and I would ask them how they knew when it was time to walk away. The answer was almost always the same: You just know.

I've got some teammates telling me I can play for a long time, ooh, boy, I don't want to play for a long time.

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.

The vision of the ideal life that we've been taught in the West, which is gaining ever more purchase in China and India and elsewhere, feeds the system we need to undo. Go to school in order to get a degree in order to get a job in order to earn money so you can try to buy happiness because your life sucks, then retire and die: this is not meaningful living.

Retirement? You're talking about death, right?

Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it.

There are days in retirement that are the waking equivalent of a dreamless sleep, if you know what I mean.

Have you ever wondered where the idea of retirement at the age of 65 came from? I'll tell you where: Otto von Bismarck, the president of Prussia, in 1889. Actually, Bismarck's government: At the time, the life expectancy of the average Prussian was about 45. Today, so many are living well into their 80s and 90s that the same promise might well bankrupt the federal government within the next generation.

There are legal Ponzi schemes and illegal Ponzi schemes. Social Security is a legal Ponzi scheme, as is the stock market.

Although we have been successful in our careers, they have not turned out quite as we expected. We both have changed positions several times—for all the right reasons—but there are no pension plans vesting on our behalf. Our retirement funds are growing only through our individual contributions.

Loss of education. Too often, people count their house and savings and retirement plans as all they have in their asset column. Because they have no money to invest, they simply don't invest. This costs them investment experience. Most never become what the investment world calls "a sophisticated investor." And the best investments are usually first sold to sophisticated investors, who then turn around and sell them to the people playing it safe.

How do you afford a good education for your children and provide for your own retirement? It requires using financial intelligence instead of hard work.

After retiring, our plan was to spend time investing and building businesses.

For many baby boomers, time, our most important asset, is running out.

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