Quotes About Retirement

Retirement can be a great joy if you can figure out how to spend time without spending money.

When you retire, think and act as if you were still working; when you're still working, think and act a bit as if you were already retired.

A steady job and a mutual fund is still the best defense against social security.

Old card players never die, they just shuffle away.

I'm retired — goodbye tension, hello pension!

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.

You know the trouble with this part of the world? It's full of retired bankers and lawyers with too much time on their hands.

The current institutionally provided retirement plans will not cover people's needs upon retirement.

'Retirement' is a dirty word. Luckily, I can carry on working until I drop, provided I retain my mental abilities.

I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also gave incentives for people to take out an additional, personal plan.

As stupid as it might sound, older people everywhere would probably be better off if they'd abandoned prudence and borrowed more. That is obviously not what the central bankers or our political leaders want. But that's the situation they've created.

I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!

If public servants are freely allowed to take up lucrative post retirement jobs with companies to whom they have awarded contracts while they were in government, it would open up an easy way for companies to bribe public servants by offering them lucrative post retirement jobs.

I published 'Rules of Civility' while I was still working. It became a best seller. I was working on this book, and then I decided to retire.

If anything could have pulled me out of retirement, it would have been an Indiana Jones film.

You're always just one punch away from getting hurt. But look, if it's going to happen, it's going to happen. I think I'm going to walk out of this sport of boxing when I think it's the right time.

I ain't trying to fight until I'm 35. I'm trying to make my money and go on to something different - do bigger and better things with my life. Hell, I don't want to get punched in the head that damn much. I've got other things I want to do.

Most women have learned a great deal about how to set goals for our First Adulthood and how to roll with the punches when we hit a rough passage. But we're less prepared for our Second Adulthood as we approach life after retirement, where there are no fixed entrances or exits, and lots of sand into which it is easy to bury our heads.

As I get older, it's getting more frustrating because I'm starting to think about what I'm going to do after cycling, and I may be pushed to study alongside riding in order to prepare for retirement - all those things the professional blokes don't really have to think about.

Money isn't everything, but it is when you start thinking about putting money away for your retirement days.

The basic idea of retirement income is, to me, to get a check, two checks every month, one from your fixed income and one from equity account. And you want them to grow over time.

I've got a bad back from being in the business for more than 20 years, but if I did have that opportunity, I'd love to have one more go-around with Flair.

Obviously, everyone knows it is hard to hang it up, but I'm definitely going to try and do it the right way and not like how combat athletes have done and hold on too long for every last fleeting moment. I don't want to be one of those people.

I lived the baseball life as a kid, with my dad in it. And I lived the baseball life as an adult, because I was in it. When I retired, I wanted the opportunity to be a little bit more flexible and home-based for my kids.