Famous Quotes & Sayings

Betty White

Retirement is not in my vocabulary.

Betty White

Retirement is not a dirty word, I am just enjoying what I am doing. If they want me to retire, then stop asking me. Ask and I will say yes unless it is something I really don't like.

Edward Gibbon

The retirement of Athanasius, which ended only with the life of Constantius, was spent, for the most part, in the society of the monks, who faithfully served him as guards, as secretaries, and as messengers; but the importance of maintaining a more intimate connection with the catholic party tempted him, whenever the diligence of the pursuit was abated, to emerge from the desert, to introduce himself into Alexandria, and to trust his person to the discretion of his friends and adherents.

Working in a social struggle is not necessarily rewarding. There are no retirement plans.

Bernard Baruch

A man can't retire his experience.

Carol Vorderman

For now I'm building up stories for the retirement home!

Diane Watson

Social Security makes up a much larger share of total retirement income for unmarried women and minorities than it does for married couples, unmarried men and whites.

We're talking about a mom. No more holidays. No more birthdays. It's over. Because this wasn't Robert Blake's retirement plan, she had to go.

William Shakespeare

Give me a staff of honor for mine age, But not a sceptre to control the world.

Benjamin Franklin

There is nothing wrong with retirement as long as one doesn't allow it to interfere with one's work.

Ben Bernanke

Indeed, in general, healthy investment returns cannot be sustained in a weak economy, and of course it is difficult to save for retirement or other goals without the income from a job.

Jane Bryant Quinn

It's daring and challenging to be young and poor, but never to be old and poor. Whatever resources of good health, character, and fortitude you bring to retirement, remember, also, to bring money.

Anthony Trollope

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

Dan Ariely

What you should do is wait until the end of each month, and then say, "OK, how much money do I have? How much do I need? Let me send the rest to retirement."

Dan Ariely

Money actually becomes even more difficult than other things because it's very hard to imagine what the benefits are to saving. So, imagine that you see a new bicycle, a new pair of shoes, or something today. You know exactly what you are giving up if you are not buying it, what are you gaining in the future if you are not getting it. So, you are giving up the bicycle today, what is it in the future? What will happen if you send another $1,000 to your retirement fund? What difference will it make? It is very, very hard to figure out.

Dan Ariely

When it comes to the mental world, when we design things like health care and retirement and stock markets, we somehow forget the idea that we are limited. I think that if we understood our cognitive limitations in the same way that we understand our physical limitations … we could design a better world.

Craig Kilborn

I enjoyed retirement the right way linguine con vongole, red wine and plenty of truffle cheese.

Brian O'Driscoll

If you start thinking about retirement in six months' time, you're already there.

Bono

There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.

Barbara Boxer

I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.

Bob Dylan

I don't really have a retirement plan.

Brett Favre

I don't need to have a retirement, retire your jersey, all that stuff to solidify my career.

Elizabeth Janeway

I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.

B. C. Forbes

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.

Barbara Corcoran

Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.

Ava Gardner

For the loot, honey, for the loot.

Charles Bukowski

Never get out of bed before noon.

What I like most about an aquarium is that all ages, from toddlers to pre-schoolers to retired grandparents, can really enjoy the wonders of the sea.

It is a five-horse race, with retirement in the lead.

Scott Harrison

He doesn't seem very confident, talking about what he is doing after his retirement,

Obviously, diversification is key, particularly when it's your only source of retirement income.

Lance Armstrong

Never has an athlete's retirement been so welcome.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now.