Retirement Preparation Quotes

People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.

It's not easy to retire. No one teaches you how. I found that out when I tried it the first time. I'm not a quitter.

As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.

I'm always announcing my retirement. I'm still not retired.

The thing you want to be able to do is to be well-liked when you retire. I know right now I'm not close to retiring, and I'm not close to being liked.

I always likened retirement to falling off a cliff, and then you have to kind of brush yourself off.

Being retired is one thing, but staying retired is another. Even when I announced my retirement, I'm sure people thought I was going to come back.

Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do.

Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.

Two weeks is about the ideal length of time to retire.

'Returnless risk' is not how you prepare for a decent retirement.

I'm mad, you know? I don't think of retiring at all.

I think it's very important that you don't start thinking about your life after football when you are 33 or 34. There are many more amazing things in this world, and it's important to think about these things before you retire.

I'm conservative with my money. I'm the one who's got a family and I can't be playing basketball forever, so when I retire, I want to live on what I've made.

Your manner of life now is already determining your life in those years of old age and retirement, without your realizing it even, and perhaps without your giving enough thought to it. One must therefore prepare oneself for retirement.

Retiring is one thing. Being retired is something else altogether.

Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law

If you depend on your company to take care of your retirement, your future income will be divided by five. Take care of it yourself, and you can multiply your future income by five.

If I were young, fast, healthy, and had a lot of money and my whole sex life ahead of me, I'd retire - like Secretariat.

I'm never going to retire. I'll die with my boots on.

What is the point of working all your life and then stopping?

There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit... Retire!

A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.

If you say you plan to retire in two or three years, you've already retired.

Basically, if I decide to retire I don't want it to be one of those situations where, you know, after a couple of months I have the itch to play again. That's not something I want to do. I want to put a lot of thought into it and make the final decision. I don't want to waver on it at all.