Tony Robbins Quotes

Most economists, including me, agree that longevity insurance would make sense for a lot of people.

No well-planned retirement should be without long term care insurance. It is the very cornerstone of retirement security.

I realized sometime in the early '80s that if I didn't do something - like planning for the future in a way, a kind of pension or something - that if I didn't do something there and then, I was going to be condemned to forever present my three years as a pop star, condensed, as a stage act for the rest of my life. Because that's normally what happens to people in the pop business.

Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

What we should be trying to do is to encourage people to establish private retirement accounts and help them take pressure off the Social Security system.

Well, today people have to be self-reliant if they want a secure retirement income.

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.

To enjoy a long, comfortable retirement, save more today.

With or without a Social Security fix, Americans don't have enough assets to retire on. There has to be a much larger debate.

It is almost always a bad idea to use a reverse mortgage to pay for a vacation or to buy a risky investment, like stocks or deferred annuities.

But with a rate of return of 1.6 percent or less, or a negative rate of return, our children and our grandchildren, if we do not make changes, will in fact not have a secure retirement. Indeed, they will not have the funds when they go to retire to even minimally get by.

I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.

If a woman did not work and have the opportunity to save and invest on her own throughout her lifetime, she is often totally reliant on her family and Social Security for her retirement years.

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.

Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of Americans to plan for their retirement with the options and certainty they deserve.

Knowing where you stand in your quest to accumulate enough money for retirement is an incredibly important part of the planning process.

Retirement security is often compared to a three-legged stool supported by Social Security, employer-provided pension funds, and private savings.

Americans should be able to enjoy a secure retirement after a lifetime of hard work. But too many Americans reach retirement without enough savings to supplement their Social Security benefits.

What if we thought of health and security in retirement as one basket?

If you put nothing away for retirement, I can tell you, to the last penny, how much you will have when you retire: nothing.

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.

For too long, too many people dependent on Social Security have been cruelly frightened by individuals seeking political gain through demagoguery and outright falsehood, and this must stop.

People worry that if they buy an annuity and then die before the policy starts to pay off, their heirs will lose out. I tell them, "What you should be more worried about is if you outlive your money, you will have to move in with your kids. Ask your kids which of these outcomes they are more worried about."

Live long enough and you'll come into pensions, a lovely thing. Presents every month from people you didn't know cared.

You need to have a state pension that doesn't drag more and more people into means-testing each year and make it very difficult for people on low to medium term incomes to save and not see their savings clawed away.