Retirement Quotes - Page 19

• Cash - in savings accounts, short-term CDs or money market deposits - is great for an emergency fund. But to fulfill a long-term investment goal like funding your retirement, consider buying stocks. The more distant your financial target, the longer inflation will gnaw at the purchasing power of your money.

  Suze Orman

  Cds, Goal, Long

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• Growing our economy means allowing individuals, and particularly those in the middle class, to be able to keep more of their money. It also means that people in the middle class and modest incomes to be able to pay for their retirement, to get a down payment for a home, to send a child to college.

  Mitt Romney

  Children, Mean, Home

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I gotta make a living somehow, and make ends meet. I accept the idea of having a retirement.

  Ted Leo

  Ideas, Accepting, Ends

  "Ted Leo and Ben Arthur Discuss Carly Simon, Joyce Carl Oates, and the Touring Grind". Interview with Ben Arthur, logger.believermag.com. June 26, 2016.

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• Mr. Jefferson has reason to reflect upon himself. How he will get rid of his remorse in his retirement, I know not. He must know that he leaves the government infinitely worse than he found it, and that from his own error or ignorance.

  John Adams

  Ignorance, Errors, Government

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• Thurgood Marshall because of his experience of discrimination did bring a special perspective to the court. That’s what his colleagues on the court so valued him for as all the tributes pouring in after his retirement attested.

  Deborah Rhode

  Perspective, Special, Pouring

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• As the baby boomers like me are retiring and getting ready to retire, they will spend whatever it takes - and theyre the wealthiest generation in our country - to make themselves live an enjoyable life in their retirement years.

  David Rubenstein

  Country, Baby, Years

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• The idea of the book ["The Japanese Lover"] came in a conversation that I had with a friend walking in the streets of New York. We were talking about our mothers, and I was telling her how old my mother was, and she was telling me about her mother. Her mother was Jewish, and she said that she was in a retirement home and that she had had a friend for 40 years that was a Japanese gardener. This person had been very important in my friend's upbringing.

  Isabel Allende

  Mother, New York, Book

  "The Lenny Interview: Isabel Allende". Interview with Collier Meyerson, www.lennyletter.com. January 15, 2016.

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• When Jesus got to the point when most people today are thinking of retirement, he goes - 'time to save the world!'

  Leonard Sweet

  Jesus, Thinking, People

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• The property boom has made us all feel wealthy, but unfortunately it has lulled many of those nearing retirement into a false sense of security.

  Noel Whittaker

  Home, House, Wealth

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• Hi, Honey, I'm home - forever.

  Gene Perret

  Teacher, Home, Forever

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• I have fantasy jobs like working in retail at a department store just selling rich housewives outfits and saying 'this looks fabulous on you! Let me find a matching handbag!' Then, the other is being like some sort of Vice or taskforce, law enforcement, undercover [person]. Or possibly someday becoming a guerilla activist - I'm kind of in-training for that now anyways. So, maybe my retirement will be jumping on ships, kidnapping, and [participating in] espionage. I still fantasize.

  Mike Ness

  Jobs, Jumping, Law

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• In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It's either that or buy a new golf ball.

  Gene Perret

  Teacher, Golf, Swimming

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• I'm now as free as the breeze - with roughly the same income.

  Gene Perret

  Teacher, Income, Breeze

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• Every position must be held to the last man. There must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight to the end.

  Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

  Wall, War, Believe

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• It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Country, Army, Upset

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• Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired.

  John Shadegg

  Thinking, Elderly, Germany

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• Right now, too many women who reach retirement age find themselves widowed or single, relying on their Social Security check for over half of their income.

  Judy Biggert

  Age, Income, Half

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• Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system.

  Kay Bailey Hutchison

  Country, Baby, Security Systems

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• We must ensure that every worker has healthcare and is able to save for their retirement. We must ensure that our workers have safe and health working conditions.

  Leonard Boswell

  Safe, Able, Working Conditions

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• We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten years. It took me all the way to the Supreme Court. And, in a 5 - 4 decision, they stood on the side of those who shortchanged my pay, my overtime, and my retirement just because I am a woman.

  Lilly Ledbetter

  Fighting, Equal Pay, Years

  Lilly Ledbetter's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• The fine print in the President's Social Security proposal is that all present and future workers under age 55 will have their promised retirement benefits cut.

  Mark Dayton

  Cutting, Age, President

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• I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security.

  Mary Landrieu

  Opportunity, Effort, Saving

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• IRAs are intended for retirement.

  Max Baucus

  Ira

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• Indeed, I think most Americans now know that in 1935 when Social Security was created, there were some 42 Americans working for every American collecting retirement benefits.

  John Shadegg

  Thinking, Usa, Benefits

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• But with a rate of return of 1.6 percent or less, or a negative rate of return, our children and our grandchildren, if we do not make changes, will in fact not have a secure retirement. Indeed, they will not have the funds when they go to retire to even minimally get by.

  John Shadegg

  Children, Negative, Return

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