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The only way to save Social Security is to raise the retirement age.
Sep 10, 2025
I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.
Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age
I was thinking Im going to die but I'm not going to tap
Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
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.
Art is one of the few careers without a mandatory retirement age.
Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
I have never favored a Social Security retirement age of 70 nor do I favor one of 68.
I left Paramount at the ripe young age of sixty. A generation ago, that would have been retirement age. But my generation has more energy, more drive, and a greater life expectancy than any group of retirees before us. We are going to be here for two decades or more past 'retirement' age and we want to do something relevant in the so-called third act of our lives.
We obviously have to honor the commitments that have been made to the people who are already retired or near the retirement age. But we need to tell the truth about the fact that when we set the retirement age at age 65 in America, life expectancy was only 62.
Raising the traditional and early retirement ages will mean extending workers' taxable earning years, fueling economic growth and putting a dent in our unfunded-liabilities crisis by delaying payouts.
It is estimated that raising the retirement age to 70 would cut the shortfall by about 36%. But this proposal has some drawbacks. Women and men who have worked jobs that require manual labor all of their lives may not physically be able to do work until they are 70 years old.
Life's opportunities never end. God designed you to be a continual learner, a continual doer, a continual explorer and a continual giver. He never authorized a 'retirement age' from those pursuits!
The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
Socialist countries throughout the world love to lower retirement ages to make people prematurely dependent on the government. But we should move in the opposite direction. In the long run, indexing retirement to life expectancy will yield enormous revenues to the system, far more than a one-shot increase in the age in the current legislative cycle.
Cricket is not like a government job where retirement age is fixed at A cricketer can retire at 30 or 60; it's up to the player.
Even though I've reached retirement age, I still plan to work - writing my investment newsletter, speaking at conferences, publishing books, and producing conferences like FreedomFest.
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day-to-day affairs that they had no time for friend-making.... They may flatter themselves that their unrelaxing concentration on business constitutes patriotism of the highest order. They may tell themselves that the existing emergency will pass, and that they can then adopt different, more sociable, more friendly habits. [But] such a day is little likely to come for such individuals.
Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.
The way to balance the budget is for Congress to cut Social Security, move the retirement age to 70, cut defense, Medicare and veterans pensions, while the states cut almost everything else. It would be tough but we could do it.
The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.
What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet.
Well, we certainly need to raise the retirement age. I've told my 19-year-old and my 22-year-old that they're not going to be getting retirement benefits at age 62.
The full retirement age is 67 and the lifespan is 80, so when they first conceived Social Security, they didn't think they were going to be paying benefits for 13-15 years. That's one of the reasons why this pyramid scheme isn't working.
The persons hardest to convince that they're at the retirement age are children at bedtime.
I do believe if one keeps busy it's very good for a person. In fact, people are always rushing into retirement and we read in Europe that people there are talking about their retirement age and moving it to 67 or something. Well, back when they started retirement funds and everything, the average age was 70 or 60, and then all of a sudden now it's 80, and so. [...] And so you keep in shape, you keep yourself mentally in shape. And if you keep yourself mentally in shape, chances are physically it will follow suit.
Cutting benefits is not the right answer. Raising the retirement age is not the best option.
Perhaps you have heard about the college executives who were discussing what they wanted to do after retirement age. One hoped to run a prison or school of correction so that the alumni would never come back to visit. Another chose to manage an orphan asylum so that he would not be plagued with advice from parents.
Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.
How blest is he who crowns in shades like these A youth of labour with an age of ease!
Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.
At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
It's time for a 21st-century retirement age. If 40 is the new 20 and 50 is the new 30, why shouldn't 70 be the new 65? The last time Washington politicians tinkered ever so gingerly with the government-sanctioned retirement age, Ronald Reagan was in office and Generation X-ers were all in diapers.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.