Quotes About Succession

On his marriage to Princess Michael, an Austrian Roman Catholic, Prince Michael gave up his place but, in reality, it was merely a gesture as there was virtually no chance of him ever becoming King as he moved further and further down the line.

No fool stays in power for years on end when there are so many generals, sons, and wives waiting in the wings to launch a coup.

Anything sequential happens in a sequence, a set of steps—

Give advertising time. That is the thing that it needs most. The advertising agency is the most precious infant among the professions. Is it fair to expect perfection in a profession that counts only a single generation to its credit? We are learning. I see no reason why advertising agencies, too, should not outlive their founders and the successors of their founders, growing wiser with each generation and gathering a priceless possession of recorded experience.

For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before.

The race of men is like the race of leaves. As one generation flourishes, another decays.

Few sons are the equals of their fathers; 310  most fall short, all too few surpass them.

For few are the children who turn out to be equals of their fathers, and the greater number are worse; few are better than their father is.

To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader.

the future is an infinite succession of presents

Each generation has an obligation to pick up the baton. We want young people to feel a sense of responsibility to take that baton and run with it.

It feels like now I - you know, I'm almost 80 years old - I can sit back and retire, you know, and say, 'Look, our young people are taking over.' And that's great. That's what I'd like to see.

It's time for old players like me, old fogies like me, to give it up and let the young players have a chance.

The players in the England team, the majority of us didn't play more than twice a week until we were 20. The younger girls are training more than that now, so in 10 years' time, when they take over from us, the quality will be so much higher. That's what I'd like to see.

I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself.

When the head of the Hyundai Motor Company, Chung Mong-koo, was fighting with his younger brother Chung Mong-hun over the company's management, he is said to have consulted a fortune-teller.

It doesn't matter if we grow old and get replaced by a new younger generation as long as there is still someone talking about us because they will still remember how we shone so bright.

I know I should not be a hindrance to SoftBank's future growth and that I need to pass on the baton to the younger generation.

Every international career is going to come to an end you're going to pass it down to the younger generation. Every career comes to that point.

Whenever senior players are missing, its ideal for youngsters to avail of these opportunities.

I think if you ignore the generation after yours, you will be obsolete very quickly.

I came from a family of extremely old money, and so by the time I was born, there was really just a trickle of money left.

I think the most important thing is God forbid anything were to happen to Mr. Trump as the president, you want someone who can take over the government the very next day and make sure that their agenda and Mr. Trump's agenda continues to move forward.

They cannot see their own impending demise. It is always the way of things, such blindness. No matter how long and perfect the succession of fallen empires and civilizations so clearly writ into the past, the belief remains that one's own shall live for ever, and is not subject to the indomitable rules of dissolution that bind all of nature.