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Too Old to Start Up a Business?

Susan L Reid
American Express OPEN Forum
Aug 23, 2010

Think you're over the hill? Too old to start up a business, write a book, or travel the world? Do you think your accumulated years of life and living are working against you?

Think again.

The famous playwright George Bernard Shaw once said, "Youth is wasted on the young."  I wholeheartedly agree!

Are you someone who thinks that the young have it all? That, just because they have good health, sharp minds and a seemingly inexhaustible supply of energy, they have everything going for them?

Then consider this: How many young people do you know who recognize and utilize all the advantages that youth offer?

That's right. Very few.

Now, let me ask another question. How many "midlifers" realize what a valuable asset their life experience is when starting up a business?

Not many. Right?

Read Too Old to Start Up a Business? to find out the three reasons why age is an asset to midlife entrepreneurs.