Top 66 Pension Quotes

To the extent that people overpay as a result of the Libor manipulation, they should be able to get their money back. Individuals who have mortgages, pension funds who had pensioner investments – whoever was ripped off is entitled to get their money back.

I’ve done a contract with my district. I have term-limited myself. I am not taking the pension. I am not taking pay raises, and my family and I are bringing our own health care to Washington, D.C. And my dad taught me as a kid to lead by example – Congress should not have anything better than the American people.

The NFL pension is the worst in the world of business. It’s an embarrassment.

We can’t reform mandatory spending in this area until we first deal with ours. I tell my colleagues, ‘Let’s get the moral high ground and demonstrate that we want to make changes to our pension, and then we can deal with the big problems.’

Consumer groups fought hard to provide investor protections for ‘special entities’ such as pension funds, schools, and municipalities who purchase swaps. No comparable protection exists in the futures market.

Anyone with a pension or retirement is an investor in the stock market.

I’m talking to a lot of my industry to maybe try to create a guild and coalition where people, when they retire, would get a pension. We pay taxes through the years, we pay for unemployment, but we don’t have a pension.

Traditional consumer banking will come under extreme pressure as its central deposit-taking and lending functions are challenged by online savings vehicles, crowdfunding, and loan syndicating by such nontraditional competitors as insurance companies, pension and hedge funds.

In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.

Fixing the pension system was one of the biggest problems Rhode Island faced.

I envisage there being absolutely no regulation whatsoever – no minimum wage, no maternity or paternity rights, no unfair dismissal rights, no pension rights – for the smallest companies that are trying to get off the ground, in order to give them a chance.

Under pressure from a growing movement of people who want their money out of fossil fuels, universities, pension investors and foundations are looking to exclude coal, oil and gas stocks from their portfolios.

If Britain is to have a stable, affordable pension system, people need to work longer, but we will reward their hard work with a decent state pension that will enable them to enjoy quality of life in their retirement.

While New York City cannot prevent other jurisdictions from selling firearms, it has taken a powerful stance against guns by divesting pension funds from gun manufacturers.

I want to be able to look my daughter’s teacher in the eye and say, ‘Your pension will be there.’ I need to know that her pension will match up with a promise we can keep.

I come from a background in the military where everyone had health care. We understood the value of education as a given. You learn a skill, earn a pension and go on to ‘Be all that you can be’… You invest in people. You hold people accountable.

I believe when hard-working citizens have earned their pension, it’s wrong for Washington bureaucrats and politicians to take their pensions away.

The government took a decision to implement ‘One Rank, One Pension’ for defence personnel in 2015 and promised to pay arrears in four instalments. I can say that all OROP arrears have been cleared, with over Rs 10,788 crore being spent.

We cannot have a mayor who does not support pension reform. We cannot have a mayor who will not support managed competition for city services when voters passed it overwhelmingly.

During my four years as treasurer, we restructured our pension system, cutting the state’s unfunded liability almost by half and putting our retirement system on stronger footing.

When I’ve had money I’ve always spent it. I don’t invest. A pension? Yes, it’s called my talent.

When I was young, many people worked for a company with a pension plan that covered them for as long as they lived. If they didn’t have a pension plan, they could count on Social Security and Medicare.

Even if you didn’t lose your job, if you’re one of the two-thirds of Ontarians who don’t have a pension, you lost savings. Even if you’ve earned most of that back now, you are a changed person. You are less secure, less confident. And I understand that.

Think of your pension and start saving. Like my father, I have been a spendthrift, and I regret that.

Under Reagan came the idea of putting your pension plan in the stock market, which wasn’t a guaranteed pension.

During his time at BHS, Sir Philip Green treated the company as his own personal plaything. Instead of investing in its branches and developing its brand, he ran down the pension scheme and used the company to line his own pockets.

I’m 78, I’m on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff.

Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order.

Since 2012, automatic enrolment has brought millions of people into a workplace pension for the first time, thanks to the support of businesses and employees across the UK.

You can’t be a progressive and be opposed to pension reform.

There are hardly any private sector employees who get both a 401k and a pension. There’s just no need that Congress should get both.

There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.

Retirement security is often compared to a three-legged stool supported by Social Security, employer-provided pension funds, and private savings.

Employer contribution pension plans have become increasingly popular throughout the past two decades.

We have pension funds with 1.5 trillion euros investments, and they want to find business opportunities in India.

In 2008, when the real estate market blew up, it principally hurt older people who saw the value of their houses go down, along with their pension plans.

Everybody aspires to an affordable home, a secure job, better living standards, reliable healthcare and a decent pension. My generation took those things for granted, and so should future generations.

It was 1981. I was working on a novel. And I put that novel aside one day after I read a newspaper article. The story said there were 19 women still on the pension payroll who were Confederate war widows. They were women who very early in their lives had married very old men.

We are for pension reform, jobs, the flat tax, and justice reforms.

I was always told as a kid the most important thing you could have was a job that paid you sick pay if you needed it and came with a bit of a pension.

If only the majority of the wealthiest top 10 percent of Americans own stock directly – which does not include pension and retirement accounts – then the divide between rich and poor is likely to expand.

Most private sector workers can only dream of getting the generous lifetime pension and health benefits typical of government service.

You don’t take a job in acting at all expecting 25 years in and a pension.

Legislators should demand that we not go through the entire pension reform debate just to apply a band-aid when this patient needs a quadruple bypass.

Every penny from ‘Gossip Girl,’ my pension, my stocks has been spent fighting for my children.

Over the next decade, cities and states across America will be compelled to tighten their belts as the really big bills – the pension bills they cannot afford – come due. They’ll have to go after existing contracts with current workers.

It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.

Nobody voted to be poorer, and nobody voted leave on the basis that somebody with a gold-plated pension and inherited wealth would take their jobs away from them.

I don’t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.

Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.

Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public’s money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs – but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.

I guess whenever I’m in the paper, it’s dealing with bridges falling apart, budget problems, pension crises – and saying we have to tackle these problems.

A pension is nothing more than deferred compensation.

Pension and health benefits are a cornerstone of union protection. When actors’ work is split between two unions, that protection is weakened or, in the worst cases, eliminated. That’s not acceptable, and it’s one of many reasons merging SAG and AFTRA makes sense.