Top 340 Retirement Quotes

I don’t even understand what ‘retirement’ means.
Michael G. Rubin
I believe acting also has a retirement phase. Unfortunately, no one in the industry is ready to accept that.
Salim Kumar
I’m not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you’ll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain’t going to happen.
Junior Seau
What’s just about a generation of people who rack up government debt for their own health care and retirement – while leaving their children and grandchildren to foot the bill?
Rupert Murdoch
There’s a ton of stuff in mythology and folklore that is loaded with wonderful creatures that I haven’t drawn yet, but that’s kind of my retirement plan. Theoretically, I won’t be doing comics any longer, and I’ll just be drawing and painting whatever the hell I want. Most of that will be monsters.
Mike Mignola
For Conor McGregor, I’m coming out of retirement just to fight Conor McGregor.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
The pain of retirement means loss.
John Murray
In retirement, I have enjoyed it… and everyone misses the game, there’s no question, you miss lots of different parts of it.
Mike Fisher
Whereas in America we are so fearful of mortality, we don’t want to talk about it, we don’t think about it, and in many ways we treat elderly people as invisible because they are a constant reminder of our own mortality. We put them away and put them in retirement homes so we don’t want to deal with that.
Lulu Wang
If mugs made fart noises coffee shops wouldn’t be relaxing, they’d sound like a yoga class in a retirement home.
Desi Lydic
When hard-working Brits hand over a chunk of their pay cheque every month so they can look forward to a decent retirement, they are expecting bosses to look after it. That’s something you should be able to take for granted.
Amber Rudd
I’m not in retirement. I just don’t want to work so much, and I don’t get that many offers any more.
Max von Sydow
Retirement has never, ever crossed my mind. And I honestly can’t imagine when or why it would. If you’re doing the thing you love, why on earth would you want to stop doing it?
Deborah Meaden
People just haven’t saved enough for retirement. And they’re going to outlive their money.
Sallie Krawcheck
The President and I agree that Social Security needs to be preserved so that we can ensure that all Americans receive the retirement benefits they’ve been promised. But we disagree as to how best to fix the system.
Steve Israel
The ‘aha’ moment came one to me one morning when I was applying my mascara, and I realized that the retirement crisis is actually a woman’s crisis: Women live longer than men yet retire with less money.
Sallie Krawcheck
If anybody is considering retirement. I’m all for it. You’ve got to live your life. I can’t live your life for you.
Julio Jones
Companies have told us that they have employees who are near retirement age. We created a $5 billion reinsurance pool to help them bear the cost of those employees on the brink of retirement.
Valerie Jarrett
I want to work to help all those working a lifetime to be confident they will have a secure and dignified retirement.
Brad Schneider
I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to do something with animals.
Sally Pearson
The retirement age needs to be raised. A portion of Soc

The retirement age needs to be raised. A portion of Social Security ought to be privatized, if not all. And there probably needs to be some means testing. It’s a Ponzi scheme that’s not sustainable.
Gary Johnson
The basic idea of retirement income is, to me, to get a check, two checks every month, one from your fixed income and one from equity account. And you want them to grow over time.
John C. Bogle
No retirement system in the world is as broken as ours.
Eduardo Bhatia
I enjoyed retirement the right way… linguine con vongole, red wine and plenty of truffle cheese.
Craig Kilborn
You can never have the comeback if you don’t have the retirement.
Chael Sonnen
We have a rare and perhaps small window of opportunity to set partisan differences aside, and attempt to achieve what many in recent years have felt was unreachable – greater retirement security for ourselves and our children.
Gordon Smith
I’m conscious that there’s only a limited amount that I’ll get done before I get shuffled into retirement, but I certainly have no desire to retire.
Sam Neill
Retirement for old people, forget about it.
Gene Okerlund
To enjoy a long, comfortable retirement, save more today.
Suze Orman
At Cornell University, it was well known that after five years on Wall Street, you could expect to be making half a million a year in salary and bonus; after 10 years, you could expect a million or more. I had 60 grand of university debt, and my parents had no retirement. I needed that money.
Philipp Meyer
Whether it’s fly-fishing, taking your camper to the Everglades, or just traveling, everyone has got a little retirement dream.
Jean Chatzky
I wanted to have more time to play and reflect, but I find retirement more stressful than having a nice, steady job because I have to make decisions about where I want to be.
Walter Cronkite
I am not close to retirement. I still have a lot more that I can achieve. There are younger guys coming into F1, but I am not old and I’m not finished.
Jean Alesi
Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. But most elderly individuals think they’re getting their money back. So it isn’t selfishness as much as a misunderstanding.
Richard Lamm
Starting a new retirement plan for those below a certain age is something tens of millions of Americans have already been through at work.
Mitch Daniels
I found out retirement means playing golf, or I don’t know what the hell it means. But to me, retirement means doing what you have fun doing.
Dick Van Dyke
If you have urgent current expenses to cover, then future priorities like college and retirement fall off your radar because they are simply less pressing. Scarcity of attention prevents us from seeing what’s really important. The psychology of scarcity engrosses us in only our present needs.
Sendhil Mullainathan
Higher wages for American workers are not just good for American families, they are good for our economy. I will keep fighting for a raise for hard working Americans so our families can afford housing, help their children get a quality education, and secure a good retirement.
Jan Schakowsky
If Congress wants to mess with the retirement program, why don’t we let them start by changing their retirement program, and not have one, instead of talking about getting rid of Social Security and Medicare that was robbed $700 billion dollars to pay for Obamacare.
Mike Huckabee
I have written before about why climate change has to be halted. In retirement, I want to look my grandchildren in the eye and tell them about the small role the business and I played in tackling the world’s greatest challenge.
Tulsi Tanti
Every hard working New Yorker, regardless of their income, race, or gender deserves an equal shot at attaining retirement security.
Letitia James
No, I don’t belong to a retirement community.
Sally Kellerman
My son is the main shareholder of my company, and I help him explore some of those opportunities that are related to things I know about, such as energy and the environment. But I’m active because I can’t think of anything else to do in my so-called retirement.
Maurice Strong
‘Returnless risk’ is not how you prepare for a decent retirement.
Barry Ritholtz
I do read all my work aloud as I’m working – this has made it a little hard to adjust to my husband’s retirement. I can shout the shouty parts if I’m alone in the house, but of course, I feel a fool if someone is there to hear me.
Karen Joy Fowler
We owe our public servants, from school teachers to state employees, a sustainable and well-funded retirement that they can count on.
Walker Stapleton
Even though I’ve reached retirement age, I still plan to work – writing my investment newsletter, speaking at conferences, publishing books, and producing conferences like FreedomFest.
Mark Skousen
There is nothing wrong with athletes coming back from retirement.
George Vecsey
I cannot imagine not working. I don’t understand the word ‘retirement.’
F. Murray Abraham
My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.
Willie Stargell
There’s nothing in the Bible that talks about retirement.
Greg Gianforte
Your retirement comes before your children's tuition. T

Your retirement comes before your children’s tuition. That’s because there’s no financial aid for retirement, and there’s still a good deal available for college.
Jean Chatzky
I’m happy in retirement.
Greg Rusedski
I don’t need to have a retirement, retire your jersey, all that stuff to solidify my career.
Brett Favre
I always heard my dad talk about playing music right through till the end. He may have talked in the early 90s about how he was ready to get off the road. But retirement, for my dad wasn’t part of his make-up.
John Carter Cash
I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises.
Chaka Fattah
If I were not able anymore to come to the lab, that’s retirement. Or if I had no more ideas of things. Every year, there’s something new that comes along that’s too exciting to quit.
Mildred Dresselhaus
It’s amazing, it doesn’t feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.
Gabriela Sabatini
On issues carrying as much emotional freight as race – and there aren’t many – a U.S. senator needs to speak with care and consistency. Otherwise, he could find people speaking at his own retirement tribute.
Gordon Smith
Never take a loan against your retirement! When you pay interest against your retirement, you cost yourself interest.
Dave Ramsey
I never had the sense that there was an end: that there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot.
Leonard Cohen