Pension Quotes

• You don't have to talk to me about pensions. I won't be around long enough to collect one.

  Mickey Mantle

  Long, Enough, Talk To Me

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

  Sander Levin

  Retirement, Three, Saving

  "Social Security at 75: Don’t Mess With Success" by Rep. Sandy Levin, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2010.

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• Chase your passion, not your pension.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Life, Business

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• A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

  George Osborne

  States, Should, Whole Life

  "George Osborne's speech to the Conservative party conference in full". www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2010.

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• The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

  Abe Lemons

  Retirement, Days Off, Trouble

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• The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform gave birth to unemployment insurance, old age pensions, government relief for the destitute, and, above all, new wage levels that meant not mere survival but a tolerable life.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Struggle, Government, Survival

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Michael K. Honey (2011). “All Labor Has Dignity”, p.101, Beacon Press

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• Quite truthfully, I have no idea how much the pension is worth because I have never contemplated retiring.

  Anne McLellan

  Ideas, Retiring, No Idea

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• The system is not intended as a substitute for private savings, pension plans, and insurance protection. It is, rather, intended as the foundation upon which these other forms of protection can be soundly built. Thus, the individual's own work, his planning and his thrift will bring him a higher standard of living upon his retirement, or his family a higher standard of living in the event of his death, than would otherwise be the case. Hence the system both encourages thrift and self-reliance, and helps to prevent destitution in our national life.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Retirement, Pension Plans, Self

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• 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.

  Arthur C. Brooks

  Government, Income, Neighbor

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• Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the man from NBC or IBM. The institutional imprint furnishes him with pension, meaning, proofs of existence. A man without a company name is a man without a country.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Country, Men, Nbc

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• Death is the next step after the pension-it's perpetual retirement without pay.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Death, Retirement, Next Steps

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

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• 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.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Retirement, Hard Work, People

  "Politics live blog" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2010.

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• My NFL pension can barely pay my son's tuition. You know, it's very little money.

  O. J. Simpson

  Football, Son, Nfl

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.

  Grover Cleveland

  Political, Honor, Republic

  Veto of Dependent Pension Bill, 5 July 1888

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• An irresistable footnote: in 1971, pension fund managers invested a record 122% of net funds available in equities - at full prices they couldn't buy enough of them. In 1974, after the bottom had fallen out, they committed a then record low of 21% to stocks.

  Warren Buffett

  Records, Enough, Lows

  Chairman's Letter to the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. 1978.

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• You know me and I have a pension. It provides some comfort but only some. It's still not enough to live off completely but it sure will help. But I'll say this. I try to forget about it and save like a maniac because I want the assurance of having other pots of money.

  Michelle Singletary

  Trying, Comfort, Helping

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• You need to have a state pension that doesn't drag more and more people into means-testing each year and make it very difficult for people on low to medium term incomes to save and not see their savings clawed away.

  George Osborne

  Mean, Years, People

  Source: blog.moneysavingexpert.com

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• I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed.

  Chris Christie

  Umpires, Arbitration, Reform

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• When top executives get huge pay hikes at the same time as middle-level and hourly workers lose their jobs and retirement savings, or have to accept negligible pay raises and cuts in health and pension benefits, company morale plummets. I hear it all the time from employees: This company, they say, is being run only for the benefit of the people at the top. So why should we put in extra effort, commit extra hours, take on extra responsibilities? We'll do the minimum, even cut corners. This is often the death knell of a company.

  Robert Reich

  Running, Retirement, Jobs

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• Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

  Jonathan Swift

  Knaves, Flattery, Invention

  Jonathan Swift (1823). “The select works of Jonathan Swift ...: containing the whole of his poetical works ... embellished with engravings”, p.55

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• If you defy the system long enough you'll be rewarded. At first life takes revenge and reduces you to a sniveling mess. But keep sniveling, have the madness, the audacity, to do what interests you, forget about your pension, and eventually life will say all right, we'll let you do it.

  Jo Coudert

  Revenge, Long, Risk

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.265, iUniverse

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• I try not to make political arguments personal. It doesn't help and it switches a lot of people off. The real questions: Will we have peace? Will we have justice? Will we have pensions? Will we have free education? Will we have public services? .... those are the sort of things which interest me. I don't think that having a go at individuals really helps get your point across apart from anything else.

  Tony Benn

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: designermagazine.tripod.com

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

  Josh Mandel

  Believe, Hard Work, Citizens

  Sun Star-Courier Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 04, 2012.

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• There is the general belief that the corporation income tax is a tax on the "rich" and on the "fat cats." But with pension funds owning 30% of American large business-and soon to own 50%-the corporation income tax, in effect, eases the load on those in top income brackets and penalizes the beneficiaries of pension funds.

  Peter Drucker

  Wisdom, Cat, Income

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• Pension never inriched young man.
  [Pension never enriched a young man.]

  George Herbert

  Men, Young, Young Man

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