Retirement Planning Resources
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Retirement Planning Resources to Help You Retire Happy
RETIREMENT PLANNING QUOTE OF THE MONTH:
- Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.
- Charles Baxter (The Feast of Love)
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The Joy of Being Retired Website
The Joy of Being Retired Website: 365 Reasons Why You Will Love Retiement: About the Retirement Gift Book for Individuals and Corporations to use as a retirement promotional giveaway.Here are some of the links to the resources that you will find at The Joy of Being Retired Website by ERNIE ZELINSKI :
- Funny Retirement Poems
Ideas for Retirement Parties
Inspirational Retirement Resources
Funny Retirement Quotes- Example: "I have retired, unretired, and retired again all in the past 10 years. I find the biggest trouble with having NOTHING to do is . . . you can't tell when you are done." - Unknown Wise Person
Retirement Wishes for Your Retirement Cards, Retirement Parties, and Retirement Cakes - Example: "May your retirement wind up costing the American taxpayers and our company pension fund one or two million dollars because you live so long in total bliss."
RETIREMENT PLANNING QUOTES from Retirement Quotes for Smart People by Ernie Zelinski of VIP BOOKS
Retirement . . . is when you stop living at work and begin working at living.
- Unknown Author
RETIREMENT: The time in your life when time is no longer money.
- Unknown Author
I don't even think about a retirement program because I'm working for the Lord, for the Almighty. And even thought the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is, you might say, out of this world.
- George Foreman
Heaven, that's my retirement plan.
- Dwayne (Unknown last name) but Sam Smith's Father-in-Law
Welfare is not a retirement plan.
- from How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free by Ernie Zelinski (Photo on Library Thing with Bio - PR3)
As in all successful ventures, the foundation of a good retirement is planning.
- Earl Nightingale
If I ever considered hiring a financial planner, I would ask him or her to provide proof in the way of their own investments and assets over the last 10 to 20 years to convince me that they followed their own advice and that this advice paid off big time for them.
- Ernie Zelinski
How to Retire Happy: Retirement With a Difference Website
Here are the links to some of the retirement planning resources at How to Retire Happy: Retirement with a Difference:
- Top-10 Reasons to Retire Early and Other Important Retirement Wisdom That You Won't Get from Your Financial Advisor (From the World's Best Retirement Book)
My Retirement Plan Is Better than Your Retirement Plan
Retirement Humor
Retirement Wishes and Retirement Toasts - Example: May your retirement be like the experience of a kid being out of school for the summer - but the summer never ends. This is best attained by following the principles of How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free The World's Best Retirement Book.
Retirement Quotes and Retirement Sayings - Example: "If anyone loves my retirement more than I do, it's probably the cats. They love having company all day and someone who will sleep in with them." - Author Unknown
Retirement Poems
Retirement Sentiments: Example: "Someone once said, "Retiring is easy. Staying retired - now that's the hard part!" Donna, from what we have seen about your demeanor, including your love of life and leisure, we know that you enjoy your retirement. Hopefully for each and everyone of us still working here, you can write an instruction book on how to enjoy retirement to the fullest."
Retirement Cake Sayings and Party Ideas: Example - "HAPPY RETIREMENT KATHERINE! - Who says a woman's work is never done?"
Best Places to Retire Happy on The How to Retire Website
RETIREMENT PLANNING QUOTES
Before deciding to retire from your job, stay home a week and watch daytime television.
- Unknown wise person
When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.
- Chi Chi Rodriguez
Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about getting caught at it.
- Gene Perret
There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
- Muhammad Ali, American boxer (On the occasion of one of his retirements)
Being champion is all well and good, but you can't eat a crown.
- Althea Gibson, American tennis player (On retirement from tennis)
If you have debt and you are going into retirement, I don't think you are ready for retirement,"
- Gary Gilgen, a certified financial advisor and director of the financial planning department at Rehmann Financial in Troy, Mich
The Ideal Retirement Plan: "Marry an old rich broad and wait for her to die."
- Ivan Wilson (commenting on an online article about retirment.)
I used to have dreams that I died at my desk.
Now that I've retired, I don't have those dreams anymore.
- Haselback (commenting on an online article about retirment.)
People have often asked me, "What do you do now that you are retired?" My answer is "I am fortunate to have a chemical engineering background, and one of the things I enjoy most is turning beer, wine, Scotch, and margaritas into urine."
- Author Unknown
If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you are old.
- Will Rogers
I don't want you guys to write, "Larry Holmes fought one too many."
- Larry Holmes, American boxer (On retirement, before his fight with David Bey, Mar 1985)
I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather.
- Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Peruvian diplomat (On his retirement from Secretary-General of the U.N.)
IF YOU DIDN'T PLAN FOR RETIREMENT, YOU SHOULDN'T BE ABLE TO STEAL FROM OTHERS WHO DID!
- Comment on USA Today
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Retirement Webpages on Squidoo to Help You Retire Happy
- Retirement Speeches on Squidoo
- Free Retirement Letters on Squidoo
- 1001 Ways to Enjoy Your Retirement on Squidoo
- Retirement Poems on Squidoo
REVIEW OF THE WORLD'S BEST RETIREMENT BOOK ON SQUIDOO:
- Where to Retire in the World on Squidoo
Retirement Quotes and Sayings on Squidoo
RETIREMENT PLANNING QUOTES
- Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The great thing about show business is that there's no mandatory retirement age.
- Scott Bakula
There are a lot of retirement books telling you how to manage when you retire.
What most people want is one that'll tell them how to manage in the meantime.
- Unknown wise person
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five, I still had pimples.
- George Burns
The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.
- Bertrand Russell
I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.
- Bruce Grocott
Women marry because they don't want to work.
- Marry Garden
When you see what some girls marry you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
- Helen Rowland
When some fellers decide to retire nobody knows the difference.
- Kin Hubbard
Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no
longer afford to scrap-pile people.
- Maggie Kuhn (1905-1995), U.S. civil rights activist
See more Aging Quotes from Quotes about Age and Aging for Smart People
Retirement Planning on The Retirement Cafe
Here are the links to some of the resources on THE RETIREMENT CAFE:
RETIREMENT PLANNING RESOURCES
- Retirement Planning for the Soon-to-Be-Retired
FUN RETIREMENT ACTIVITIES
Fun Things to Do in Retirement
SAVING AND ENOUGH FUNDS TO RETIRE
Saving for Retirement
BEST JOBS FOR RETIREES
Jobs for Retirees
SAVING AND ENOUGH FUNDS TO RETIRE
How Much Do I Need to Retire
LETTERS OF INTENT TO RETIRE
Sample Retirement Letters
PURSUITS TO INDULGE IN WHEN YOU ARE RETIRED
Top-10 Retirement Activities When You Are Retired
BEST GIFTS FOR RETIREES
Retirement Gifts on The Retirement Cafe
RETIREMENT PLANNING QUOTES ABOUT MONEY Liberated from Sensational Quotes for Smart People by Ernie Zelinski of VIP BOOKS
Getting money is like digging with a needle. Spending it is like water soaking into the sand.
- Japanese proverb
With money you're a dragon; without it you're a worm.
- Chinese proverb
The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
- Katherine Whitehorn
If small money does not go out, big money will not come in.
- Chinese proverb
Many a pupil has gained more wealth than his master.
- Greek proverb
Deceive the rich and powerful if you will, but don't insult them.
- Japanese proverb
Retirement Planning Resources from Various Websites
- Goodbye Letters for Work at The Fun at Work Cafe
RETIREMENT PLANNING QUOTES
Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
- Arthur E. Morgan
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Free Retirement E-books
Retirement Planning With The Retirement Quotes Cafe
Here are the links to some of the great resources on The Retirement Quotes Cafe
- OTHER RETIREMENT PLANNING RESOURCES
RETIREMENT PROMOTIONAL GIVEAWAYS

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Retirement Job Resources
For jobs in retirement check out:
- Best Retirement Jobs at the Real Success Resource Center
Jobs During Retirement on The Retirement Cafe
Retirement Jobs and Dream Careers on UnRealJob.com
Best Retirement Jobs on Squidoo
SOME QUOTES RELATING TO RETIREMENT JOBS
- The less of routine, the more of life.
- A. B. Alcott
My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago.
- George Gobel
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years gotten enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
- Logan Pearsall Smith
The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense..
- Thomas Edison
I had a boring office job. I cleaned the windows in the envelopes.
- Rita Rudner
Being a well-dressed man is a career, and he who goes in for it has no time for anything else.
- Heywood Broun
More Retirement Resources at The How to Retire Happy Website and UnrealJob.com
Seven Additional Retirement Planning Resources
1. United States Government Website: Home page of the US Government's Official Web Portal for all government transactions, services, and information including links to Social Security and Retiree Benefits.
2. Simple Retirement Income Calculator: Take an edcuated guess at how much money you will have to spend in retirement by estimating your retirement benefits at this U.S. Government website.
3. Retirement Planning Association of Canada: (RPAC) provides a multitude of resources to its members via a variety of education programs. A source of relevant information on the changes in retirement planning in Canada for the general public.
4. Retirement Home Exchange: The premier international home exchange and home swap service. Home Exchange is the vacation alternative where two families agree to swap homes for a vacation.
5. Elderhostel Adventures in Lifelong Learning® Educational Travel and Learning Vacations for Retirees Offers group educational travel adventures especially designed for grandparents (over age 55) and their grandchildren. Discover nearly 8,000 educational tours in all 50 states and more than 90 countries with Elderhostel, the not-for-profit leader in educational travel since 1975.
6. Social Security for Retirement: When should I retire? The three major elements of your retirement portfolio are benefits from pensions, savings and investments, and Social Security benefits. This government website allows you to apply online for your Social Security.
7. CNN.Money Retirement: Covers topics such as Finding the right retirement planner, retiring later for bigger pay day, Gambling with your retirement nest egg away versus letting your retirement money grow and Social Security's future.
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