If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Domination and monopoly is the name of the game in the web marketplace.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

I’m getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can’t stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

Most women in my family start to get sick and start dying in their 40s, and I am going to be very happy to become 50 and 60. I love getting older.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I’ve got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.

It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‚Is this it? Are we still relevant?‘

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

I think it’s good for a woman to put on a bit of weight when she gets older – it looks better. But a man has to stay balanced.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.

Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as well as to other people. Well, women do, anyway. Women do this a lot. And I think when men get older, they do this too, but maybe in slightly different terms.

The state of the economy is not the issue when it comes to growing a business. The relevant questions are always: ‚What business are you in? Furthermore, is it adapting to the times?‘

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

All diseases run into one, old age.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled.

I’m saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

I’m very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me. I’m rather surprised at who I am, because I’m actually like my dad!

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

My public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?

Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

I’m so old, I don’t buy green bananas any more.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.

Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.