quotations about retirement
One final rule about retirement is that you need an actual plan, regardless of age, for how you'll spend your days. If your goal is to start a business, make sure it's a feasible idea, and start laying the groundwork before retirement so you're able to dive right in and stay occupied once you leave your primary job. If you're expecting to work part-time to not just cover your bills in retirement, but give yourself someplace to go during the day, do some research and make sure local businesses are hiring. Finally, if your goal is to enjoy your leisure time and not work at all, come up with a concrete list of things you actually want to do. Maybe you're hoping to travel, or take a class at your local community college. You're more likely to wind up content in retirement if you go in having already figured out what you'll be doing with all of that time.
MAURIE BACKMAN
"3 Rules for Picking the Perfect Retirement Age", The Motley Fool, November 10, 2017
What's the best age to retire? It's a question countless workers ask themselves every day. Pinpointing the right retirement age isn't easy, as each choice comes with its own consequences. Leave the workforce at 62, for example, and you'll slash your Social Security benefits should the need arise to claim them right away. But, you'll also get more years of payments, not to mention the ability to enjoy some downtime when you're younger and are apt to have more energy.
MAURIE BACKMAN
"3 Rules for Picking the Perfect Retirement Age", The Motley Fool, November 10, 2017
Happy, Content, Relaxed, Rested, Smiling, Carefree. RETIRED.
ANONYMOUS
Is retirement dead? It's a scary question, especially if you're currently working hard with hopes of kicking back, relaxing and enjoying spending your time anywhere but an office one day. But we think the answer is yes, traditional retirement is going away even if it hasn't died out completely quite yet.
ERIC JANSEN
"Traditional retirement is dead", CNBC, November 1, 2017
Retirement is not a static event, fixed in time with a gold watch to mark it. Rather retirement -- if that is even the right word -- is a multidirectional process that can take many years.
ALICE RADOSH
Women Confronting Retirement
A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.
ELLA HARRIS
attributed, Say It With Style
I've got a sizeable retirement nest egg. It's an ostrich egg, and it's going to make an omelet so big that it'll produce enough leftovers for decades.
JAROD KINTZ
The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over
Well, my retirement plan's a coffee can and it's full of IOUs.
JEFF BATES
"Already Spent"
WARNING: Retired person on the premises. Knows everything and has plenty of time to tell it!
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When you retire, think and act as if you were still working; when you're still working, think and act a bit as if you were already retired.
ANONYMOUS
Saddest of all is when we see retirees putting their bucket list dreams on hold for a later time. This is not the best time of life to put your dreams on hold.
KEN SUTHERLAND & ALEX SUTHERLAND
"Making the 'Great Transition' into retirement is a scary time for seniors", New York Daily News, January 27, 2016
Before you think of retiring from the world, be sure you are fit for retirement; in order to do which, it is necessary that you have a mind so composed by prudence, reason, and religion, that it may bear being looked into.
J. BURGH
attributed, Day's Collacon
When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.
R. C. SHERRIFF
Reader's Digest, Volume 67, 1955
The money's no better in retirement, but the hours are!
ANONYMOUS
Maybe the worst part of retirement is finding things to complain about. When you work, there is plenty. And working means there isn't time to do much around the house so there is that to complain about. But now I have only myself to blame when something goes wrong. I am my own boss and a pretty awful one at that.
WALLY SPIERS
"Retirement is easy. It's keeping everything straight that's difficult.", Belleville News-Democrat, November 4, 2017
The man of a thousand retirements
Will always be the one to tell you when to quit
I won't take stock in a withered man
PANTERA
"Primal Concrete Sledge"
Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.
MAGGIE KUHN
Ms. Magazine, July 1973
The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.
ANONYMOUS
My retirement had now become solitude; the former is, I believe, the best state for the mind of man, the latter almost the worst.
HANNAH MORE
attributed, Day's Collacon
There is no fixed or ideal pattern to respond to the circumstances of retirement. Each solution is a personal one and can be endlessly modified to suit your wishes and desires. That's the fun of it.
ROBERT KELLEY
The Complete Guide to a Creative Retirement