Forget Bingo! 80 Is The New 30
MSNBC:
At 85, Bob Galvin was recently sidelined by eye surgery. Although he’ll now require custom-made glasses, the former chief of Motorola still expects — as he does every year — to hit the ski slopes this winter in Vail, Colo.
It also won’t keep him from “calling the shots” at the pair of research and development ventures he launched in recent years, each seeking to revolutionize part of the nation’s aging infrastructure — from revamping the power grid to wiping out big-city gridlock.
Eighty-four year old Phyllis Apple agrees. The CEO of the Apple Organization, a North Miami Beach, Fla.-based public-relations firm, Apple says she’s in great health and has plenty of time for golf and needlepoint on the weekends — despite working full time. “I have everything I want,” she says. “Why should I retire?”
Galvin and Apple, like the other members of Inc.com’s 8 Over 80 list, are in good […]
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