Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

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.

The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.

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.

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

What decisions would you make differently today if you knew you would most likely live to be 150? How would you think about your 50s or 60s? How would you evaluate your career arcs or investments or even the area in which you live?

Invest in people who will take care of you when you're old.

After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

My firm has 25,000 high-net-worth clients. A typical account would be that of a couple aged 65 and 60 who need their money to last the rest of their lives, 25 to 35 years.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.

If you're 35, 45, or even 55 - you have a very long time horizon - 40 years or vastly more. That is you, and/or your spouse, are likely to live about that long, and you'll be investing the whole way.

A good financial plan is a road map that shows us exactly how the choices we make today will affect our future.

It's not easy to part with the trophies. However, I do need to have some long-term financial security for those close to me.

I invested. I wanted to cushion the future. I'm a financial success!

I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.

Sons represent security, insurance, a 401(k), a bank.

It's not about just how to maximize your finances but make sure it lasts a long time.

The older I get, the more I'm saving the day.

You have to invest the money in a certain thing, because, you know, at 40, I want to enjoy my life. So I do a lot of investments. Apartments back in Russia and New York. It's a good thing to do.

I'm just trying to diversify my portfolio and put myself in a position so when I do retire, the options are limitless.

There are players who tend not to look at the money short-term: they have a bigger plan.

I used to, in the summertime, spend so much money doing a lot of fun stuff. Now, I'm actually consciously trying to save so we can live how we want to live after basketball. I've even sold a few things.

Throughout your teens and twenties, it's pretty easy to live in a suspended reality - one where you never get old or need to spend much time thinking about 401Ks, mammograms, or renewing your license. You don't need me to tell you: that ends.

The first years of man must make provision for the last.

I had a plan ever since I was nine years old, when I said "Mama, I'm a buy you a nice house and pretty dresses." That was the plan, that was my goal.