Pension Quotes

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I went through some bad times, some very self-destructive stuff, you know, when I was on top. I`d got involved in partying and doing all that and I lost my sister and, basically, I got all screwed up in my head. She was like my best friend and I lost her to leukemia and I was just a mess. I had a lot of money because I`d worked a lot and saved it. I had it in a pension plan and then I lost all my money. My accountant. I just woke up one morning and I didn`t have a dime. We`re talking about tons . . . I mean, a lot of money, and I was flat broke.

- James Caan

I don`t have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.

- Bela Lugosi

Side letters are often needed to allow a pension fund to invest in a hedge fund without violating the terms of the pension fund`s charter documents or the provisions of ERISA. Driving this trend is a significant increase in the funds allocated to the alternative investment sector in all jurisdictions - from Japan and Dubai to the UK and the BVI.

- Mark Lewis

Now he`s been kind of forced into that position since this gives him a shot at a full pension. Given what is happening right now, this is probably the best he can do.

- Robert Stewart

A high proportion of (UK) companies will have looked at their pension scheme and thought `can we stop these for future service?`.

- Bob Scott

I would like to thank Adair Turner and his fellow commissioners for their thorough analysis of this important issue. The Commission has had a hard look at the pension system in the UK, and has set out the stark challenges we all face in providing for increasingly long retirements. This report brings home the message the Government first highlighted in the 2002 Green Paper; that people must either save more or work longer.

- Alan Johnson

We had an incredible run - it was probably the best time to be running a pension plan,

- Robert Scott

We have always viewed the White House and the House as going along with some airline relief as part of a whole package. If you try to pull it out and pass it separately, it changes the dynamics of pension reform.

- Greg Kelly

But the advice was not taken - Johnstone did emigrate to Canada, and did mortgage his pension; and I fear - though I failed to trace his after history - that he suffered in consequence.

- Hugh Miller

This is a fascinating reform, since it comes right before the U.S. FASB -- as is probable -- accepts a request by the SEC to look into FAS87, the U.S. (pension) standard,

- Andrew Roberts

People consider it a very inequitable way to run a pension system. The vast majority in the military get nothing and the small group that stays for 20 years.

- Richard Jackson

People consider it a very inequitable way to run a pension system,

- Richard Jackson

(AMR) felt it was important to provide the senior management and their families with the same level of pension security as that of its other employees,

- Jimmy Little

I`m 78, I`m on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff.

- Anne McCaffrey

Chase your passion, not your pension.

- Alan Stissel

And it`s also producing a growth in debt to the United States that will weight very heavily in a country that has to address issues like having more old people to be covered by Social Security or by pension in the future.

- Andre Cook

One of our goals during this time is to maintain stability for our employees. Our employees were used to receiving both a 401(k) plan as well as a pension plan. By continuing to offer both, our employees can continue to stay focused and aggressively strive to serve our customers both during and after the separation from Sprint Nextel.

- Andy Fishman

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple, With a red hat which doesn`t go and doesn`t suit me, And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves, And satin sandals, and say we`ve no money for butter

- Andy Keith

(But now, thanks to a three-year-old program called Prompt Itinerant Assistance, the government is instead going to them.) Maybe now I`ll be able to get my pension, ... I`ve worked my whole life as a field hand and I`ve reached the right age, but until I came here, I never had any of the papers I need to be eligible, not even a birth certificate. What could I do? I don`t know where the nearest notary public`s office is, much less how I can get there.

- Andy Runzi

I`m just worried about pension and medical.

- Art Spander

I`m just worried about pension and medical, ... when I do get ready to retire, it is set up for me.

- Art Spander

They`re never going to be repaid. Adam Smith said that no government had ever repaid its debts and the same can be said of the private sector. The U.S. government does not intend to repay its trillion dollar debt to foreign central banks and, even if it did intend to, there`s no way in which it could. Most of the corporations now are avoiding paying their pension fund debts and their health care debts.

- Athuraliye Rathna

The next 12 months will not only determine the very future of the domestic automobile industry as we know it, but Detroit will become the lightning rod for the most pressing issues facing this country -- health care costs, pension reform, global competition and its threat to the industrial foundation of America.

- Austin Wilson

(Cunningham noted the same problem:) The Ivy League elites and East Coast editorial writers, ... simply refuse to believe that to most Americans-most of whom don`t have over-priced degrees-faith, family and traditional values are far more important than making friends with France or preserving a deeply flawed government pension program.

- Barbara Cawley