Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
Now that I am sixty I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
At sixty I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty but I know a great deal more about folly.
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.
There was a study done in the early 20th century of all the entrepreneurs who entered the automobile industry around the same time as Henry Ford there were something like 500 automotive companies that got funded had the internal combustion engine had the technology and had the vision. Sixty percent of them folded within a couple of years.
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes I had one thousand and sixty.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now and we don't know where the hell she is.
I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.