Jane Pauley Quotes

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?

As we live longer and healthier for longer, we need to keep ourselves busy... the diary is pretty full.

If you're 30 years old, you have your whole life ahead of you.

It is not enough for a great nation merely to have added new years of life—our objective must also be to add new life to those years.

You can have a full life after 50.

People are living a lot longer these days and not preparing for it. I'm in the gym and, you know, using my voice.

While I'm hale and hearty, I've no thought in my mind to retire.

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.

I suspect if people live a lot longer they would be retired for a somewhat longer period of time. Just the financial planning takes on a very different character.

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

I know from my own parents how important active older people are to a local community.

We'll probably live 20 more years than our grandparents did. The question is, what are you going to do with those extra 20 years?

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

People are going to be living quite soon for 100 years. Our idea of how a family works no longer applies. It's no good saying you're going to have children for 15 years and then you're going to retire and have hobbies, because you've got 40 more years to go after 60 and you're in good health until 90 or something.

We're going to live longer than our parents' generation, and there comes a point when you ask yourself, 'What am I going do?' You can only play so much golf.

Most women have learned a great deal about how to set goals for our First Adulthood and how to roll with the punches when we hit a rough passage. But we're less prepared for our Second Adulthood as we approach life after retirement, where there are no fixed entrances or exits, and lots of sand into which it is easy to bury our heads.

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

I hope to live to 100. There is so much to do.

The fact is I still have quite a few good years in front of me. I still improve.

Our society has changed in unforeseeable ways since Social Security was created. For example, we are living longer, healthier, and more productive lives and while this is all great news, this has also placed added pressure on America's retirement system.

Americans living longer than ever must save more than ever.

I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.

A lot of people aren't saving enough. And incidentally, people are living longer now, and health care is improving. You might end up retired for 30 years - people are not really preparing for that.

In real life, and for women everywhere, no matter what their job is, your 30s and your 40s and beyond should be celebrated.

I really don't believe in retiring as long as you can breathe.