Suze Orman Quotes

In surveys, many borrowers say reverse mortgages have improved their lives and provided money they needed for retirement.

If you're going to live in the house make it your goal to just pay off your mortgage.

Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.

By working toward a financial objective, you'll start to see the money add up for retirement or the credit card balance go down. But it doesn't have an immediate impact on your day-to-day life, and when it does - like when you're pinching pennies to save more - the immediate impact could feel negative.

Every American must be guaranteed dignity and independence in their retirement.

We need to make sure people continue to have access to retirement plans because everyone deserves the opportunity to retire with dignity and financial independence.

This isn't like cancer, where we don't know the solution. Financial planning is math. We have the answers, yet it's this huge cause of stress.

Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has played an enormous and necessary role in keeping Latinas out of poverty.

The American dream is still to own your home.

I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.

I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!

You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.

As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything. If you do, you're screwed.

Privatizing Social Security will take dollars out of young folks' pockets.

While a reverse mortgage can indeed be a viable way to generate income, it is very important to understand that after you take out a reverse mortgage, you will still be responsible for paying the property tax, the insurance premium, and all the maintenance costs for your home.

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.

The only thing I ever wanted to do is never have to work a day in my life.

First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men.

If you're just starting out in the workforce, the very best thing you can do for yourself is to get started in your workplace retirement plan. Contribute enough to grab any matching dollars your employer is offering (a.k.a. the last free money on earth).

Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

I think it’s a nutty idea to fool around with the Social Security system and run the risk of hurting the people who have been saving all their lives…. It may be a new idea but it is a dumb one.

We need to make certain the government has the tools to assure American workers they can put their savings—and their trust—into a system that will be there when they need it most.

Ask the shareholders of Enron how they would feel about privatizing Social Security.

If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.