Retirement Quotes to Help You Retire Happy

Researchers at the University of Greenwich suggest best friends not family are the key to a happy retirement.

This is because so many grandparents have the freedom of their twilight days interrupted by childcare, they say, and are not able to do fun things in retirement.

Those with children or grandchildren were no more happy than those without, the study of 279 retirees presented to the British Psychological Society said.

But those with strong social networks interviewed for the study were 30 percent more satisfied with their lives than those without, according to the researchers>

Here are a few of the latest retirement quotes and retirement sayings that I have accumulated to help you retire happy:

#1 Retirement Quote of Second Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes
Thank Heaven for Retirement!
— from How to Retire Happy, Wild and Free

#2 Retirement Quote of Second Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes
Retirement is like a long vacation in Las Vegas. The goal is to enjoy it the fullest, but not so fully that you run out of money.
— Jonathan Clements

#3 Retirement Quote of Second Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes
Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left.
— George F. Burns

#4 Retirement Quote of Second Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes
Life is a game. Happy people are the players. Unhappy people are the spectators. Which would you like to be?
— from Life's Secret Handbook by Ernie J. Zelinski

#5 Retirement Quote of Second Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes
Retirement is the time when you never do all the things you intended to do when you were still working.
— Unknown wise person

#6 Retirement Quote of Second Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes
If my dreams could all come true paradise/retirement would be — in a little bungalow — somewhere by the sea.
— Unknown wise person

#7 Retirement Quote of Second Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes
If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you are old.
— Will Rogers

#8 Retirement Quote of Second Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes
I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments.
— Richard Davies

#9 Retirement Quote of Second Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes
Retirement: A Time to Become Much More than You Have Ever Been
— from How to Retire Happy, Wild and Free

#10 Retirement Quote of Second Top-Ten List of Retirement Quotes
Retirement is waking up in the morning with nothing to do and by bedtime having done only half of it.
— Unknown wise person

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Australian Retirees Having Money Problems

The Association of Independent Retirees says a poor financial year worldwide has put its members on the bread line.

Queensland president Helen Sava says over the last financial year retirees who have savings invested in stock have lost 50 per cent of their value while superannuants' investments have also declined. She says retirees are preparing for a mini-recession.

"They're taking the wise approach at the moment and not selling, they're holding on to them just waiting to see what sort of dividends they're going to get," she said.

"The superannuants, their funds are down between 15 and 30 per cent depending on which fund they're in and this is giving them a very lean living at the moment and it's forecast to last for at least another 12 months."


The money you enjoy spending frivolously to enhance your retirement is money well spent.
— from How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free: Retirement Wisdom That You Won't Get from Your Financial Advisor by Ernie J. Zelinski




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Retirement Planning Basics

When happy and successful retirees are asked what advice they would offer to a person just entering retirement, most will respond with a variation of Spend as much — or considerably more — time thinking about how you will utilize your days and months as you do contemplating your finances. As one retiree told a newspaper reporter, "Retirement could well represent 25 percent or more of your whole life. Why leave it to chance?

Top Five Replies from Retirees to the Question: "What Would You Do If You Could Replan Retirement?"

• Save more or save less money - 39 percent
• Take better care of their health - 29 percent
• Live closer to their children - 24 percent
• Retire earlier - 23 percent
• Get involved in more hobbies - 21 percent
  

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