John Mackey on youth and innovation

I think one of the advantages of being young is not only do you have a lot of energy, but you don't know what you can't do.  You don't yet know your limitations...  We usually depend upon a lot of our breakthroughs with young people because they naturally think outside the box because they have never been in the box.  And they naturally just tend to be more creative and you see many of the innovations that are happening in our society by people in their 20s.  In my generation, how old was Bill Gates when he started Microsoft, or Steve Job when he started Apple, or Michael Dell when he was in his college dorm selling computers?  Now, how old is Mark Zuckerberg when he started Facebook?  It's story after story after story of very young people who just went for it and are successful.

~ John Mackey, co-founder of Whole Foods Market, interview with Patrick Gentempo, "Money Revealed - Part 5"