Retirement Quotes - Page 13

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.

Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries.

Live long enough and you'll come into pensions, a lovely thing. Presents every month from people you didn't know cared.

I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.

If you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors' and mutual fund managers' retirement.

The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.

To me, the hope lies in adults forgetting about their retirement and turning toward the adolescents and helping pull the adolescents over that mysterious line drawn on the ground into adulthood. If we don't do that, the adolescents are going to stay exactly where they are for the next 30 or 40 years.

Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

I haven't had the time to say, 'I'm retiring.' But baseball says, 'You're retired.'

You can't put off being young until you retire.

It [retirement] was absolutely boring. You can't go and say, 'I'm retired now. That's it!' It won't take long and you're really gone for good and someone throws the last shovel of dirt on a coffin with your name on it. That's the moment you're really retiring - when you die.

In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.

At retirement, switching from "I must" to "I want" leaves me puzzled and uneasy.

I know many of you thought that I would be retiring today, but if I was ever going to announce my retirement it would not be in a downtown Los Angeles hotel with this fairly ugly carpet.

Learn the lessons of history. Don't let how you feel about your tenure at your organization drive you to make poor investment decisions that could potentially derail a successful retirement.

We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten years. It took me all the way to the Supreme Court. And, in a 5 - 4 decision, they stood on the side of those who shortchanged my pay, my overtime, and my retirement just because I am a woman.

We've got to make sure our younger workers understand that as life expectancy increases, the retirement date for benefits increases also.

A short retirement urges a sweet return.

The easy way out is to approve an early retirement plan one year but not pay out sick and vacation time to deserving employees until three years later. Unfortunately, later is now.

Americans believe that people should work hard and get ahead on their own, but when disaster strikes and they need help with retirement or disability, Americans as a whole should come to their aid.

Retirement is unthinkable to me. The future is bright and very exciting and I'm looking forward to playing a part in it.

It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself.

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.