First I want to honor the world’s oldest entrenaut. This is a man who is already a billionaire, but still loves the game and simply cannot sit on the sidelines. He builds, flips and at times he has dismantled companies, but in the end, his spirit is indomitable and his thrill and lust for “figuring it out” is undiminished.

That man is Kirk Kerkorian. He has made billions on investments in Hollywood, Las Vegas and Detroit and now he has his eye on Chrysler. Kirk will be 90 years old on June 1, 2007, and for his upcoming birthday, he decided that he wanted to own a car company so he just offered $4.5 billion for struggling American auto maker, Chrysler.

It doesn’t matter if he wins or loses...I’m There for You Baby applauds his spirit...and I say, “Dear God, may I still be alive and with enough marbles left that I can still do deals at 90!”

You can be an entrenaut at any age.

Look at 96 year old Harry Bernstein. By the time he was 24, he had published a short story in a prestigious magazine—and then nothing for more than 70 years. Now his memoir—The Invisible Wall—has been published to great critical acclaim. The book is about his early childhood in England where he and his family lived in poverty. When Harry was 12, his family moved to the United States.

When asked by the New York Times why he wrote his memoir, Bernstein said the motivation was the death of his wife, Ruby, after 67 years of marriage.

“It was a terrible thing for me because it never occurred to either one of us that it would not last forever. There was so much emptiness, especially at nighttime, and you had to find something to fill in that gap. I was looking for a home.”

Further, he said that he wasn’t ready to write the book until he was 90.
And Harry isn’t done—he’s now working on another memoir—called The Dream—about his family’s first years in the United States.

So entrenauts, remember Rule #18—You can be a entrenaut at any age. Age is a state of mind not a barrier.