If you don’t like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors‘ and mutual fund managers‘ retirement.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

Demographics show that we are entering a battle between young and old. I call it the ‚Age War.‘ The young want to hang onto their money to grow their families, businesses, and wealth. The old want the tax and investment dollars of the young to sustain their old age.

You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!

If I was a billionaire, I’d be smart with my money.

One pillar to wealth is having residual income.

I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

Watch your finances like a hawk.

I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

Time is money.

We can’t get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can’t just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.

There are certain age limits on police officers. They’d have retired me out at 65.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn’t want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

I have a problem with too much money. I can’t reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

I will never retire unless I have to.

If I have cash and I can’t figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.

I probably would have retired years ago if I hadn’t found interesting things to do.

It’s a good idea to revitalize community colleges, to cut back, to modify the student loan program so it doesn’t go through banks.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

I have been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years, and in 1970, when I first started directing, I said, ‚If I could pull this off, I can some day move to the back of the camera and stay there.‘

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. That’s because, when you invest in real estate, you often see a side of humanity that stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and saving money shelter you from.

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players‘ equipment.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

When I was a kid, there were no credit cards. Instead, retailers offered layaway plans. My mom would go to a store, such as a furniture outlet, choose the sofa she wanted, and put it on layaway. That meant she put a little money down to hold the sofa, and every payday she’d pay a little toward the purchase.

If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that’s a good discussion. Maybe that’s the way to help close the deficit.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don’t want to be a colony in a nation.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

There may be less of a chance of losing all the money you put into a mutual fund than there is of losing all the money you put into lottery tickets, but you’re never going to win big in a mutual fund.

Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it – not by turning it over to Wall Street.

We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years… Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

When I retire I’m going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

It’s rare for a startup to make money immediately, so you need to make sure that you have enough saved or that you have another income stream that can support you.

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn’t go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he’s got.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

People clinging to job security, savings, retirement plans, and other relics will be the ones financially-ravaged from 2010-2020, the most volatile world-changing decade in history.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.

Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

I’m definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working – if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.