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.

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

As long as possible, I would really like to complete one marathon per year. Though my time has been slowing down as I get older, it has become a very important part of my life.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.

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.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

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.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

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.

The older you get, the better you get.

You know you’re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It’s like, ‚See if you can blow this out.‘

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.

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

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

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

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

I’ll die a crazy old man!

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Medicines are only fit for old people.

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

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!

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!

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

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

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

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

I’ve been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It’s natural.

I guess I don’t so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

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

In this industry, there’s a lot of cases of being a competitor in one way, but you’re often a customer and a vendor in another way. It’s not atypical in aerospace. Actually, it’s not that atypical in a lot of industries.

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?

When I’m 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I’ll be like: ‚Cool, I’ll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.‘

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years… Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

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

That’s something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.

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.

And you know, I’ve had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on.

Starting at about, I guess, forever, I’ve always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn’t wait to be 16 and get a driver’s license.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

‚Unforgiven‘ is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, ‚This is great, but I’d like to do this when I’m older.‘ So I stuck it in the drawer for ten years and then took it out.

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.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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?‘

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

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.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.