Christine Gregoire Quotes

Doing right by our seniors isn't just about making the right decisions today - it's about ensuring that every generation of Americans can have a strong and secure future.

As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.

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?

Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.

Invest in people who will take care of you when you're old.

The fact remains that most of us are anesthetized to the true cost and true value of long term care insurance.

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

I think about my grandfather who's 89 years old, and the last thing he needs is more money out of his pocket.

When the Australian Government looked at how to meet the challenges, and the opportunities, presented by our ageing population, it saw that an all-encompassing approach was a prerequisite.

A good financial plan is a road map that shows us exactly how the choices we make today will affect our future.

The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way.

Aging bodies are fiscal black holes into which you can pour endless amounts of money.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

We all understand that we are living longer, and we are more likely to spend more years as frail, elderly people who can't work. We also recognize that the wonderful advances in medicine also come with wonderful price tags. Those are things you can't budget around.

Nearly every American will encounter the need for long-term care.

Economically anxious, many parents see their children's accomplishments as a sort of insurance against the financial challenges of old age; high-achieving kids, this logic goes, will become high-earning adults and therefore be better able to help Mom and Dad pay for the assisted-living facility in a few decades.

I want the United Kingdom to be the best place in the world in which to grow old. By ensuring that as many as possible have the opportunity to build up a decent private income for later life we will be well on the way to achieving this.

There are players who tend not to look at the money short-term: they have a bigger plan.

I'm not looking for hobbies, I'm looking for investments.

I learned early in my career that I had to be prepared for life after football because you never knew when it would end.

Your manner of life now is already determining your life in those years of old age and retirement, without your realizing it even, and perhaps without your giving enough thought to it. One must therefore prepare oneself for retirement.

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.

I believe that the biggest mistake that most people make when it comes to their retirement is they do not plan for it. They take the same route as Alice in the story from "Alice in Wonderland," in which the cat tells Alice that surely she will get somewhere as long as she walks long enough. It may not be exactly where you wanted to get to, but you certainly get somewhere.

Simply put, women should prepare in their 50s for the rest of their lives.