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.

I just don’t have time to get old!

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

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

I could imagine at a certain age, when I have no vocal cords left, that I would find a young man who could sing my parts for me. But I don’t see why I would stop.

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?‘

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of ‚Lives of Girls and Women,‘ I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

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

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.

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.

When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all the curious details, all the so-called beautiful writing – if they are not truly relevant to what I am trying to say, then they have to go.

My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my father died young, at 63. But he didn’t take very good care of himself.

I always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

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!

As you get older, you have more responsibilities; you have more commitments, more events, kids, you’re married now. You still have all the things that you’ve had, plus you just keep adding.

When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I’ve had a lot of physical problems.

I have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.

My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.

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

I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

I own my own company, so I’ve never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn’t sell. I’ve always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I’ve always had people buying them.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

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.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

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.

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

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

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

All diseases run into one, old age.

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

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

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

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

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

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

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

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

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.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.