Mitch Daniels Quotes

If you're going to retire, retire early.

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).

Everyone thinks about retirement at some point.

I can't retire.

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

I have to think about the possible ramifications of an early retirement.

A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.

Americans are not saving enough for retirement.

I wouldn't know how to retire.

Workers are most likely to save for retirement if they have access to a workplace savings plan and are automatically enrolled in that plan.

I'm not retiring, because when you retire, you're still getting paid. I'm not getting paid, so I'm not retiring.

You hear too many guys talk about retiring too soon.

The role we have in work may change over time, but the concept of retirement is not biblical.

You know what is a nice thought? Retirement.

I think 'retirement' goes hand in hand with people who make a living by having a 'job.' I don't think we-the .00001 percent of the population who are so fortunate to love passionately what we do-consider it a 'job.

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

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.

There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

I wasn't thinking about my pension plan until about two years ago. When I was in my twenties, the idea that you'd be thinking of taking a job based on its health-care policy was completely foreign. But these days young people are thinking about these things.

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

You can look at history of these things, and Social Security wasn't devised to be a system that supported you for a 30-year retirement after a 25-year career... So there will be things that, you know, the retirement age has to be changed, maybe some of the benefits have to be affected, maybe some of the inflation adjustments have to be revised.

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

Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy.

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