Retirement Quotes - Page 15

• He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Retribution, Gifted, Extras

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• Birds sing in vain to the ear, flowers bloom in vain to the eye, of mortified vanity and galled ambition. He who would know repose in retirement must carry into retirement his destiny, integral and serene, as the Caesars transported the statue of Fortune into the chamber they chose for their sleep.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Flower, Ambition, Sleep

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• That woman is happiest whose life is passed in the shadow of a manly, loving heart.

  Suzanne Curchod

  Heart, Shadow, Life Is

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• In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Flow, Obstacles, Flight

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• Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?

  P. D. James

  People, Unemployment, Dignity

  P. D. James (2012). “Original Sin”, p.77, Vintage

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• I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day-to-day affairs that they had no time for friend-making.... They may flatter themselves that their unrelaxing concentration on business constitutes patriotism of the highest order. They may tell themselves that the existing emergency will pass, and that they can then adopt different, more sociable, more friendly habits. [But] such a day is little likely to come for such individuals.

  B. C. Forbes

  Business, Order, Age

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• Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever."

  Gene Perret

  Home, Forever, Age

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• The simple index fund solution has been adopted as a cornerstone of investment strategy for many of the nation's pension plans operated by our giant corporations and state and local governments. Indexing is also the predominant strategy for the largest of them all, the retirement plan for federal government employees, the Federal Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). The plan has been a remarkable success, and now holds some $173 billion of assets for the benefit of our public servants and members of armed services.

  David F. Swensen

  Simple, Government, Pension Plans

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• The multiple failings of our flawed financial sector are jeopardizing, not only the retirement security of our nation's savers but the economy in which our entire society participates.

  John C. Bogle

  Investing, Financial, Failing

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• Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf.

  Gene Perret

  Inspirational, Stress, Mean

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• Like, people are less likely to invest in their retirement when they have more options in their 401K plans than when they have fewer.

  Sheena Iyengar

  People, Plans, Fewer

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• There is San Diego - this retirement village, with its prim petticoat, that doesn't want to get too near the water. San Diego worries about all the turds washing up on the lovely, pristine beaches of La Jolla. San Diego wishes Mexico would have fewer babies. And San Diego, like the rest of America, is growing middle-aged.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Baby, Beach, America

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.

  Seneca the Younger

  Amusement, Tombs

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• Every American worker should be able to save for retirement via payroll deductions.

  Richard Thaler

  Able, Should, Workers

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• The secret to a successful retirement is to find your retirement sweet spot. The sweet spot is where your passions, what you do best, and what people will pay you to do overlap.

  James C. Collins

  Sweet, Passion, Successful

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• Retirement is a very subjective thing. There are guys I know who retire and they're very happy and they never miss work at all. I can't see myself retiring and fondling a dog every day. I like to get up and work and go out. I have too much energy or too much nervous anxiety or something. So I don't see myself retiring. Maybe I will suddenly get a stroke or a heart attack and I will be forced to retire, but if my health holds out I don't expect to retire.

  Woody Allen

  Dog, Heart, Guy

  "Woody Allen Interview To Rome with Love". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. June 2012.

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• Retirement in another country is your body is too racked with pain and your hands are too arthritic from the life in the rice patty fields, so you can't work anymore.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Pain, Hands

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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• There's no retirement, there's just a few years of non-work by the fire with someone bringing you some tea and relative peace and playing with the grandchildren.

  Henry Rollins

  Grandchildren, Fire, Years

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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• People look at things differently. Imagine going to a village in Southern Sudan and try to explain to someone there the concept of life insurance or retirement. Go to Vietnam and say retirement. Retirement in another country is your body is too racked with pain and your hands are too arthritic from the life in the rice patty fields, so you can't work anymore. So you move in with your son and his new wife takes care of you because that's how families work there.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Pain, Moving

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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• I think a lot of business students chase money and then they burn out. They have early retirements, not because they want to retire and chill... But because they hate their job and they are miserable. I don't chase money.

  Tyra Banks

  Jobs, Hate, Thinking

  "Model to Mogul and Beyond". Interview with Ty-Ron Mayes, westeastmag.com. October 27, 2012.

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• Life is continued work. It's constant learning. The whole concept of retirement I don't even buy into. We should constantly be working. Maybe not physically working, but we could be spiritually, emotionally working toward bettering ourselves and bettering the lives of others around us.

  Lauryn Hill

  Life Is, Should, Working It

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• There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with anyone ineligible. Before that, it was understood that one of society's main tasks was matchmaking. People with lifelong friendships and ties to local nonprofessional organizations did not have to fear that isolation would accompany retirement, old age, or losing a spouse. Overburdened householders could count on the assistance not only of their own extended families, but of the American tradition of neighborliness.

  Judith Martin

  Organization, Ties, People

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• People build continuity into their life: Places, friends and goals. We go to work on Monday with plans for Friday night, enroll as freshmen intending to be seniors and save money for retirement. We try to control what comes next and shape it to meet our will.

  Nathaniel Fick

  Senior, Friday, Monday

  Nathaniel Fick (2006). “One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The more I hung out with detective squads, the more there was always one guy or two guys or a woman who had a case that they were the primary on years ago, it was never solved, and they take that case into their retirements.

  Richard Price

  Years, Squad, Two

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Retirement? You're talking about death, right?

  Robert Altman

  Talking

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