Mark Skousen Quotes

Younger workers should have more freedom to build their retirement nest egg.

If you're going to retire, retire early.

The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

I have no plan to retire anytime soon, although remember I am 50 years old!

I look back on it, yeah, I'm in a much worse financial position than I was eight years ago. I'm going to have to go out at age 62 and kind of readdress some of that.

We need to take steps to strengthen and mend Social Security so that its promise of a secure retirement is just as real for seniors in the future as it is today.

Whether you are just entering the workforce or nearing retirement age, planning for the future is critical.

I think the notion of retirement is just a dreadful, dreadful idea and I hope I never have to do that.

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.

Social Security is an insurance policy. It's a terrible investment vehicle. Social Security has some great benefits. But it was never meant to be a savings plan. So we need to have a national debate. Should this 12.5 percent that we're contributing all go into a Social Security pool, or should half go into a mandatory savings plan?

You cannot go to someone who is 65 or 70 years of age and tell 'em, 'This program that you retired relying on is now being pulled out from underneath you.'

I'm a little young for retirement.

I've seen people be effective, even among local teams, by offering something that improves wellbeing in a small way - people who get passionate about smart investment strategies and managing finances for retirement, for example.

By the time I am Howard's age I hope to be long retired. I don't plan on working that long.

The current institutionally provided retirement plans will not cover people's needs upon retirement.

Do I want to see people take their Social Security payments and put them into private accounts, open up an eTrade account and go into the stock market? Absolutely not.

I don't suppose I'll ever retire completely.

I'd like to retire at 50 but I don't want to sell papers in the middle of London on a Zimmer.

We have a rare and perhaps small window of opportunity to set partisan differences aside, and attempt to achieve what many in recent years have felt was unreachable - greater retirement security for ourselves and our children.

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.

The 1993 Social Security tax penalizes seniors who have planned for their retirement through savings, investment and hard work. That's wrong, and that's why the double tax on Social Security must end.

It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older.

Eventually, my W-2 income will wind down, and my investments can actually make that up.

An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job.

My retirement date, every time you ask me that, I'm going to say five years. I don't want to retire.