Retirement Quotes

"When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking."
-Gail Sheehy

"Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not."
-Richard Armour

"There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working."
-Robert Half

"The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income."
-George Foreman

"The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off."
-Abe Lemons

"When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income."
-Chi Chi Rodriguez

"Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples."
-George F. Burns

"Words like 'retirement' just don't appeal to boomers. We are really careful in our language. They are looking more for individuality and ways to express themselves."
-Andrew Smith

"A distressing gap exists between the public's expectations for retirement and the reality."
-George Carlin

"Every investor should have some Net representation in the portfolio. And the younger investor, with a longer time horizon, may want it at a higher level, as compared to someone closer to retirement."
-Fred Froewiss

"They're competitive and they want to stay competitive. It's more than a retirement home."
-Doug Springer

"The American Benefits Council, representing companies that either directly sponsor or provide services to retirement and health plans covering more than 100 million Americans, believes that it is critical that pension reform legislation be enacted this year."
-James Klein

"I think that there are probably people not ready for retirement living but not ready to take care of a household."
-Cathy Arnett

"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

"Our biggest need is health care, ... We still don't have a dialysis center or an elder retirement center."
-Tom Burns

"Social Security is the very foundation of retirement security for millions of Americans."
-Sue Kelly

"I wouldn't put my retirement money on the line for something like this, ... It is a very difficult environment for startups right now, with jet fuel so high. That scares investors away."
-Darryl Jenkins

"I would assume a private establishment paying for a police officer, they should pay the entire (retirement) cost, both state and local, ... I would assume the locals would bill them as such."
-Donald Hill

"I don't see this [retirement] as something that's going to create any kind of financial problems."
-Allen Jacobson

"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

"People in their 40s and 50s are saving for their kids and for their retirement. They have the most difficult time saving because they have the most overhead expenses."
-Lewis Altfest

"The first order of business was getting the rights cleaned up. So, we went through expedited arbitration ... Four and a half years, and my entire retirement [fund] later, we got all the rights back clean and clear."
-Joe Camp

"The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent, and in general it is understood completely only when it is broken: by exile or emigration in the case of one's country, by retirement in the case of a trade or profession."
-Primo Levi

"So many people don't know how to approach retirement. The thing is, if you have some plans, you can step right into it with some gusto. I never would have dreamed when I was 75 what I would have accomplished when I was 80."
-Madeline Kaloides

"My mother in her 80s, has, like, 20 prescriptions, and she spends $4,000 a year. At various stages of retirement, you have various expenditures of needs."
-Louise Piazza

"The President's plan to privatize Social Security would actually take away guaranteed benefits and put the promise of a secure retirement in jeopardy."
-Patty Murray

"Everyone has plans of early retirement or what their future is going to hold, which is why I got some rental cabins. I had that on the side anyway. I said this is an opportunity where I can expand and do some of my own maintenance and upkeep. I take care of my own properties."
-Donnie Thomas

"A $1 million portfolio provides $40,000 in income the first year of retirement."
-Christine Fahlund