Retirement Quotes - Page 9

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe.

Being sixty-five ... became a crossroads. We said, we have nothing to lose, so we can raise hell.

As a chapter closes in your life, And a new one starts for you, May your years be filled with all the things You've been looking forward to!

You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.

A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

Financial literacy is not an end in itself, but a step-by-step process. It begins in childhood and continues throughout a person's life all the way to retirement. Instilling the financial-literacy message in children is especially important, because they will carry it for the rest of their lives. The results of the survey are very encouraging, and we want to do our part to make sure all children develop and strengthen their financial-literacy skills.

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older.

Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new.

Specifically, I am concerned about the long-term condition of Social Security. I am committed to ensuring that current beneficiaries and those nearing retirement face no reduction in benefits, while preserving this vital program for future generations.

I quite clearly have made the right decision in my heart, retirement was the way.

For the loot, honey, for the loot.

Two weeks is about the ideal length of time to retire.

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

Perhaps you have heard about the college executives who were discussing what they wanted to do after retirement age. One hoped to run a prison or school of correction so that the alumni would never come back to visit. Another chose to manage an orphan asylum so that he would not be plagued with advice from parents.

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

Retirement savings is probably behavioral economists' greatest success story. It is a prototypical behavioral-economics problem because saving for retirement is cognitively hard - figuring out how much to save - and requires self-control.

There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

To retire is to begin to die.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.