Vivek Wadhwa Quotes

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.

Age is rarely a limitation to being a mentor.

As you get older, you should be better at coaching. You learn your lessons. You keep thinking and learning about it, you should be better than you.

I associate wisdom and grace with age.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

You always have something to learn from people who have been through more than you. Be open and receptive to what they know.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

Judges don't age; time decorates them.

What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.

My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.

Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

The older you get, the more you learn.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

But time growing old teaches all things.

I'm moving into that eldership age, you know? I'm at the 'wise woman' age where it's not about learning, but utilizing the information that I have in a way that serves other people. That's a high calling and it's a great responsibility.

I'm young but I'm not stupid.