Boomers Quotations

Any politician that says no tax revenue or zero spending cuts does not deserve reelection. Our hole is so deep in this country with the debt and the debt service, the interest on that debt, before the big expenses come for Social Security and Medicare - for we baby boomers in a few years - that everything has to be on the table.

The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop aging. But it is possible, by committing to show up for others in community after community, to earn a measure of immortality.

Gen Y consume most of their media online and mobile. Gen Y, as the Baby Boomers drop off, are the largest cohort with the largest amount of money - despite the fact that half of them are unemployed.

I am very concerned about the millions of baby boomers who are counting on the stock market to deliver them a safe, sound, long retirement. I am afraid the baby boomers who are counting on the stock market are in trouble.

While I do occasionally order items on the Internet, it's hard to teach an old shopper new tricks. I'm convinced that the catalogue will eventually disappear, but not until the last baby boomers have kicked off their smelly Nikes and been buried in mulch.

If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share.

We'd like to combine our overall upbeat analysis of consumer spending and retail activity with our baby boom spending thesis. And this is basically grounded on the observation that baby boomers tend to spend more on quality of life and personal indulgences than their parents did when they were at the same age.

We've always been reassuring about sex. We've taught our readers about sex. I know people sometimes feel uncomfortable with it. But I try to tell baby boomers that Gen X and Gen Y are really comfortable with sex. ... It's just a wonderful, healthy aspect of life.

With nearly eighty million baby boomers starting to retire this year, and a large number of them wanting to live where it's warm, someone needed to come up with a solution, so I thought of assembling a group of investors to purchase a cruise ship and convert the cabins to condominiums.

With nearly 80 million baby boomers starting to retire this year, and a large number of them wanting to live where it's warm, someone needed to come up with a solution, so I thought of assembling a group of investors to purchase a cruise ship and convert the cabins to condominiums.

We're beginning to appreciate that baby boomers aren't traditional retirees; they plan to be active, whether that means working, volunteering or continuing to run a business. On the other hand, affluent individuals may continue to work to absorb steep and ever-climbing healthcare costs when they retire.

World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.

We have seen a lot of pre-positioning. Boomers are buying that retirement home before they have sold their current residence.

Women now don't want to be in the grind. The baby boomers made the grind seem unappealing.

We designed it specifically for them, and we put in every amenity humanly possible. It's not meant to be for everyone. It's for successful Baby Boomers with the means to purchase that home.

We have quite a high number of baby boomers in our district. Combined with that, we have a retirement incentive ending in June 2007. So when we look at this large number of teachers, in order to capitalize on the retirement incentive they have to retire next June.

The reality is that baby boomers are turning senior citizens and not only is it inhumane, but the system will go broke. There needs to be wholesale change.

There are younger people moving into Astor now, and when I say younger I mean the younger baby boomers because they can afford now to buy property on the river.

We need to be able to train more nurses in our state starting now. The problem is only going to get worse as baby boomers head into retirement; the demand for qualified nurses is only going to go up.

Low interest in this service among the grey-power generation and the baby boomers stems from multiple reasons, including the fact that the service is a novelty to many senior citizens, who are typically slow to adopt new technologies in the first place. The seemingly complex applications inhibit adoption.

Medicare is projected to run out of money in 2001. That date of fiscal insolvency can be put off for several years by relatively incremental and modest changes, but when the baby boomers start retiring, ... At that point, costs go up very rapidly, and more extensive action will be necessary.

More people turn 80 every day than are born in Bucks County, and the baby boomers are starting to seek treatment in amazing numbers. To be ready, we have invested heavily and we will continue to make the necessary investments.

Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.

Next-generation mid-size cars are an area where boomers will be looking very closely,

New services reflect the changing demographics of bank customers and banks' are adopting new strategies for retaining core deposits. The first baby boomers will turn 65 in 2011, and by 2030, one in five Americans is expected to be 65 or older. Add the trend toward increased equity ownership, and it's hardly surprising that more than half of the bankers expect to offer brokerage services (61%) and half will offer mutual funds (50%) in the next three years.

Retirees who are on Medicare will suffer the consequences of 700 billions of Medicare dollars instead being used to cover the skyrocketing cost of Obamacare. In essence, less dollars for seniors means less service. Not fair. The Boomers are going to take the 'hit.' In Obamacare, 'too old' has limitations of service.

One of the biggest things about the boomers is that they're the first group in history that has grown up with many positive models for aging in their own family, ... They're the first group that could really see the full potential of aging.

CEOs will rarely admit it in public, but privately they say they're worried about having enough qualified people to fill leadership roles as baby boomers retire. So more big companies now are actively analyzing where the gaps are likely to be, and which skills they need to be giving people the chance to develop right now.

We're optimistic as an industry. We hope to keep aging baby boomers skiing as long as we can, while seeing them bring their children and grandchildren to the slopes.

I think Intel is still very good. It's done very well, but it is still a very, very strong story, ... I think Bank One is a very strong recovery story in the financial area. That usually does well as we see an economic recovery. Weyerhaeuser is in the forest products industry. A great secular story there in the next five to 10 years as home building picks up with the baby boomers getting older and the baby busters are getting bigger.

I think the Gap had to come up with something new. It's possible they're trying to target the baby boomers next. Old Navy has been driving growth for the Gap Inc. but it's starting to slow. Its namesake Gap stores are facing market saturation, and the higher-priced Banana Republic brand is a niche concept. Banana Republic has been doing great but there's a limited opportunity to expand it further.

It has been a good year for many Denver merger and acquisition professionals. Many private equity firms have made and exited good investments, and are having success raising their next funds, while investment bankers are helping broker many deals. It's a hot and competitive market right now. Additionally, the first baby boomers turned age 60 in 2005. We are beginning the early stages of what is projected to be the greatest wave of business transition in U.S. history over the next decade.

Just as when you save for kids' college, you don't want all your money in stocks two years before they start school. Now that the boomers are starting to retire, there's a lot more interest in bonds and longer-dated paper.

I think financials will be a very, very strong sector, ... You have a tremendous increase in demand out there as the savings rate has to pick up as the baby boomers start confronting retirement.

Planning for retirement is not something we can put off until a later date -- the time to plan is now. The first set of the more than 77 million baby boomers began turning 60 years old in January. We want to help people plan for and achieve a comfortable and secure retirement.

I think God is moving among the boomers as well in their later years.

Most large financial service companies have rushed new marketing materials to help boomers start thinking about retirement planning?and all are based on the financial services company focusing on you and your life, versus them and the products they want to sell. Where it falls short is when you call the financial services firm and interact with a planner or adviser who only wants to sell you products. The training hasn't filtered down from the marketing professionals to the front-line client-contact people.

Middle age is when you drink wine.... That combined with the health message means that you get a lot of aging baby boomers with coins in their pockets that are out to buy better quality wine.

We have our dips, but other than that, it is a strong market. We still have a strong influx of baby boomers coming into this area.

We're really trying to think about how are baby boomers as seniors going to be different and what types of technologies and services might they use to manage their own personal health and wellness in ways we can't yet imagine.

We can set aside a surplus to save Social Security or Medicare, or we can pass the burden of the baby boomers retirement off on to our children,

You have the Baby Boomers having the resources to buy condominiums, betting on the increase in value in the next six months, ... That activity may be the first to feel the crunch if the housing bubble bursts.

We are on the edge of a nursing shortage, because we can't replace the early Baby Boomers who are retiring. Occupational and physical therapists are very popular now, too, as is the physician's assistant degree because you have a lot of the same rights and privileges as a doctor, including good pay, with fewer responsibilities.

This nation is about to be hit with a tidal wave of new retirees. In just six years, the baby boomers will begin to retire. The demands on Social Security and Medicare will be dramatically increased, ... This is no time to divert Social Security and Medicare funds to other purposes.

This story has been written with different players - the names are now changed - over the last 10 years, ... There's more use of tissue today because orthopedic and neurosurgery are increasing because baby boomers are getting older. They want to remain active and golf and play tennis and jog five miles and keep their cholesterol levels down.

Today we are reaching from younger people to? baby boomers and up.

The data show that Americans are ill-prepared for retirement, and gained virtually no ground over these three years. The low saving rate and weaker returns in the stock market held back wealth, despite strong gains in housing. With the baby boomers rapidly approaching retirement, we need to start saving fast, and are showing no signs of doing so.

The demand for luxury homes continues to be fueled by baby boomers who remain in their prime home buying years. This group has amassed great wealth through investments, inheritances and equity and appreciation of their homes. Their strong buying power, coupled with the historically low mortgage interest rates we have enjoyed over the last few years, have spurred the luxury home buying segment, which also includes second homes and new construction.

The real threat to Social Security doesn't come from giving young people this opportunity. The threat comes from the Bush Administration's plan to load illegal aliens into the Social Security system, an idea that would skyrocket costs and bankrupt the system at the same time that baby boomers flood into their benefit years.

We have growth potential throughout the entire country. The number of baby boomers retiring every day is staggering.

To that extent, he will live on, at least for baby boomers and maybe longer. He's part of the culture now.

With the baby boomers exiting the workforce, there is an expectation for younger kids to come in and fill these positions. We want to make sure our kids see and understand how to prepare themselves.

While the number of new Internet users in the US and the total number of online buyers are both growing at single digit rates, online sales are experiencing double-digit increases. Credit goes to baby boomers who are increasing their online spending and a cadre of digitally literate young adults who are replacing older Internet shoppers in the e-commerce marketplace. These demographic forces coupled with the spread of broadband access are changing the way people shop online and how Web merchants market to them.

Boomers will do aging on their own terms. At every stage in their lives, boomers have done it differently from their parents' generation. They won't be retiring so much as they'll be reinventing themselves.

Boomers show a high level of comfort with technology. We find 81% use it to stay connected to their families, and 62% purchase products online.

Boomers really have the chance to turn this around.

Boomers over 50 may be healthier, wealthier and better educated than any previous generation of 50-year-olds in American history. But they also may be poised for a big fall if all they do to stay healthy is drink designer water and pop vitamins all day long.

Boomers make up a third of our population, and they have always dominated our society from a cultural standpoint. The way work itself is being done, how we dress, where we work: All of these innovations have been embraced by our society.

Boomers have been mass-marketed to since they were five years old, and they're always interested in what's next.

Boomers have a different view of aging. They're jumping out of airplanes, running marathons and not giving up on rock and roll.

Boomers are entering their peak earning years, and Southwest Florida has become a very attractive location for them ... . Our challenge is to maintain the high quality of life that first attracted them to this region.

Boomers and the Workplace Revolution. These industries will need to recruit older workers because there is not a skilled enough workforce ready to replace the retirees.

Boomers always struck me as very self-centered and self-important, because there are so many of us. We're always in the middle of the next fun moment at some everlasting party, and we're not able to defer the gratification to tackle the long-term problems.

As the boomers age, we think there will be an upswing.

As the Baby Boomers get older, they're going where it's warmer. It's not a matter of if (Minnesota loses a seat in Congress), it's a matter of when. It would be nice to dodge the bullet one more time, but eventually we're going to lose a seat in Congress.

As the baby boomers age, the issue of retirement income security will be paramount for this growing sector. Our products are specifically designed to meet post-retirement savings needs.

Conceptually, it is a wonderful strategy. That's a neglected market. People have been paying attention to the echo boomers and not to the middle woman. That's your Chico's women, and there are a lot of them, and they have the money to spend.

Director Portman will be inheriting the most dire long-term fiscal outlook we've ever had. The first baby boomers retire in 18 months, and the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid costs are set to explode. On top of that, he'll be dealing with a Congress that's absolutely addicted to runaway spending and pork!

Cosmetologists in this area are in the right place at the right time. A lot of baby boomers don't want to get old, and they have the money to spend on this luxury.

Current industry data shows that American workers aren't saving enough in their workplace-provided retirement programs, and our survey indicates that this lack of preparedness extends from the accumulation phase of retirement planning into the distribution phase. Even those who are conscientious savers and investors, including Baby Boomers now aged 55 to 58, aren't prepared to convert their retirement savings into a predictable retirement paycheck that they can't outlive.

Eons' role is to see if we can shape a new era of power and fulfillment and value at every stage of life, starting at 50. I don't think there's very much offered out there in terms of being inspirational or challenging to these boomers and seniors with a lot more life to live.

There was a general assumption - that is proving somewhat erroneous - that the baby boomers would continue with the consumption patterns that they established in their youth. Instead, they're doing more like what prior generations did as they got older, and switching their drinking habits to wine and spirits.

There's not enough Advil being made to keep baby boomers going forever. We're looking for their kids and grandkids to come.

The x-generation is going for one thing, and the baby boomers want another.

I've liked financials -- I think I have a terminal love affair with financials. They're very cheap stocks and I think you have a great decade coming at you with the baby boomers hitting retirement.

Affluent baby boomers have unique challenges when it comes to retirement planning and represent one of the largest opportunities for financial services firms. Mass marketing to this group of high net worth individuals simply doesn't work and requires a more thorough understanding of the affluent lifestyle, attitudes and behaviors. It's obvious from our research that there's lots of low hanging fruit yet to be picked.

Some boomers may want a view of the website that uses larger fonts. Also, new techno-graphic data indicates that older web users read from left to right, whereas younger users scan the page, searching for what they need.

As boomers approach retirement age, they want all kinds of flexibility.

As baby boomers flush through the system, they are downsizing into condos and the mills. We will see construction move toward smaller units.

As baby boomers age and our population of retirees continues to grow, there's been a greater demand for health services related to neurological conditions and other diseases associated with aging.

The breakdown of the Boomers into two groups proved to deliver some very interesting results. There are distinct differences between those aged 40-49 and 50-60 years old with relation to the timing, activities and money needed for retirement.

Baby boomers have an inaccurate and pessimistic view of aging. So much of it is in your hands and how you take care of yourself.

Baby Boomers don't want the same two-by-three-foot stone. They want to be remembered for who they are.

Baby boomers are turning to pets because it fills the empty house, as kids have gone off to college. Young professionals who aren't starting families right away are still looking for some kind of companionship.

Baby boomers are still coming down here in record numbers.

Baby boomers are really fueling the purchase of second homes.

Baby boomers are our prime demographic. We'll stick to that.

You're talking about a real problem facing this country at the very moment when we're expecting something like 70 to 80 million baby boomers to retire and to add additional costs to Social Security and Medicare. We're headed towards a fiscal cliff,

You're getting a group of these 75 million baby boomers who are very, very active, and there's a lot of them.

Young parents are working and busy raising their kids. Frankly, I'd like to see us focus more on the empty nesters and the baby boomers (in their 50s and early 60s).

This is not your father's Oldsmobile. It's much trendier and more sophisticated. The boomers don't want to live a stodgy life. They want activity. They want to be closer to theaters, restaurants.

This is not your father's Oldsmobile, ... It's much trendier and more sophisticated. The boomers don't want to live a stodgy life. They want activity. They want to be closer to theaters, restaurants.

This is really the first wave of black seniors who got established into the middle class. This is the first wave of black baby boomers who are starting to get into active adult age ... who were able to benefit from civil rights legislation and were able to get in to the middle class.

A lot of folks are baby boomers coming in from out of state that now have money they can spend on second homes.

A lot of great music got easily dismissed because the baby boomers threw their weight around and we had to listen to Motown 'til our ears bled,

A lot of the things we talk about the Generation Y wanting are in complete harmony with what the boomers want in order to stay.

They know their customers better than any casino company in the world, and they know the boomers are coming.

They might hold a particular appeal to baby boomers who want a high-touch relationship, where they can talk to the person in charge.

They had this arrogant belief that when baby boomers turn 50, 'they belong to us,' and that just didn't happen.

There's a transition that takes place somewhere between age 45 and 55 when you come to grips with the fact that you are getting old. Boomers are going to have to come to grips with it.