Social Security’s not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you’ve got to put all of it on the table.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office – anything that benefits the population has to be dismantled. Efforts against the U.S. Postal Service are particularly surreal.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Social Security is based on a principle. It’s based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the widow across town, a disabled widow, is going to be able to have food to eat.

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

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.

When I was young, many people worked for a company with a pension plan that covered them for as long as they lived. If they didn’t have a pension plan, they could count on Social Security and Medicare.

I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

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.

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.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.‘

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

The New Testament says nothing of Apostles who retired and took it easy.

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

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

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.

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

I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

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.

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.

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.

Time is money.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Many people will have nothing at the end of their working lives.

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

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.

I will never retire unless I have to.

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.