Quotes About Succession

Providence has decreed that he should succeed to his dear father's honours,' pronounced the Dowager, thinking poorly of Providence.

I brought my sons into the business to extend my working life, so I could keep my hand in the business.

It was very difficult to succeed Bert van Marwijk because, two years before, he was second in the World Cup, and then he left a broken-up team behind - so that was much more difficult than you think.

The accession to power in Pyongyang of Kim Jong Un, son of Kim Jong Il and grandson of Kim Il Sung, is a unique achievement in world politics.

Our mindset is not such that we will remain in power till eternity.

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

If you want a great replacement, like, who can follow Barack and still have that swag, that charisma, that charm and be historic - I think it would be Tina Fey for president.

Britain has had some very strong and successful queens throughout history, but, since the Act of Succession in 1701, they have only been eligible to take the throne if they had no brothers. If there was a boy in the family, no matter where he came in the order of birth, he leapfrogged his sisters to take the title.

To defend - it is very difficult to win two titles in a row.

A person's life is over in 50, 100 years. But a company lives on through the people it is composed of, and SoftBank group has to survive even after I'm gone.

You can stay too long in a job, that's for sure. But by the same token, in the 12 years I have been CEO of GE, there have been four CEOs of Toshiba. So there's too short a time to do it, and there's too long a time to do it.

With Edward's death imminent, questions of whether a woman could succeed were irrelevant. The only question was, which woman?

Succession planning must be part of any long-term leader's thinking, and it has to be done now.

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.

I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast

As Vice President one of the things I spend time on is the continuity of government; that's the main reason I'm here is a back up for the President if anything happens to him.

Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

Sherlock and his Watson may for a time find a place, while some more astute sleuth with some even less astute comrade may fill the stage which they have vacated.

he had to give up the firm to his partners.

Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you? He answered, Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one.

the death of a great man demands the birth of a great son

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.

Jackson was a transformative president in part because he had a transcendent personality; other presidents who followed him were not transformative, and served unremarkably.