Larry Fink on the Australian model of compulsory retirement accounts

Superannuation has been a huge success in supplementing the government pension scheme and taking the strain off it - an attractive prospect as we think about how to relieve the burden on Social Security in this country.  The current system is broken, and we need a comprehensive solution to retirement savings that includes some form of mandatory retirement savings.

~ Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, asset manager with nearly $4 trillion under management, from a lecture given to business school students at New York University in May, "Retirement Saving Done Right," Bloomberg BusinessWeek, June 3, 2013

Vanguard founder Jack Bogle on stocks for the long run

Stay the course. Don’t let these distractions get in the way of an intelligent investment program. There is a long trail between today and the retirement of most people. The whole idea of investing is to build a sum for your retirement and there’s no better way to do that than stocks. They will be good in the long run, but not as good as in the past because dividend yields are so low.

~Jack Bogle, founder, Vanguard, FOX Business interview, March 30, 2011

Jim Cramer on growth investing for retirement

You don't need to own everything. But if you ask me, the reckless thing would be to miss these moves [in popular growth stocks like NFLX and CMG]. Because, well, you had a chance to retire on these rallies. Believe me, I have seen plenty of people retire on good stocks.

The goal is to find a Netflix, or an Apple, or the next Netflix or the next Apple, not to laugh at or dismiss the people who discovered it and stuck with it.

~Jim Cramer, CNBC's Mad Money with Jim Cramer, February 17, 2011

David Rubenstein on retirement

Something happens when people retire: They drop dead of heart attacks.

~ David M. Rubenstein, 58, co-founder, The Carlyle Group (one of the world's largest private equity firms)