#retirement

I feel that one of the most important lessons that can be learned is that what we "see" may be different than what is actually in front of us. ↗

— Mark Singer

#retirement #retirement-planning #change

I believe that the biggest mistake that most people make when it comes to their retirement is they do not plan for it. They take the same route as Alice in the story from “Alice in Wonderland,” in which the cat tells Alice that surely she will get somewhere as long as she walks long enough. It may not be exactly where you wanted to get to, but you certainly get somewhere. ↗

— Mark Singer

#retirement #change

Learn the lessons of history. Don't let how you feel about your tenure at your organization drive you to make poor investment decisions that could potentially derail a successful retirement. ↗

— Mark Singer

#retirement #retirement-planning #change

He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre. ↗

— Albert Camus

#idleness #retirement #time #death

The retirement system that is in place for members of Congress and other federal workers features what is known as the Federal Employment Retirement Plan. ↗

— Virgil Goode

#employment #features #federal #known #members

Americans believe that people should work hard and get ahead on their own, but when disaster strikes and they need help with retirement or disability, Americans as a whole should come to their aid. ↗

— Jacob Hacker

#aid #believe #come #disability #disaster

Indeed, in general, healthy investment returns cannot be sustained in a weak economy, and of course it is difficult to save for retirement or other goals without the income from a job. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#course #difficult #economy #general #goals

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#idleness #leisure #meditate #place #retirement

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

#check #find #half #income #many

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#comes #furnish #helps #leisure #listen