Quotes About Succession

You get the best people, you build them into the best managers in the industry, and you accept the fact that some of them will be recruited to become CEOs of other companies.

Having a great idea or being a charismatic visionary leader is "time telling"; building a company that can prosper far beyond the presence of any single leader and through multiple product life cycles is "clock building.

Empires are built by young men, Culum. They're lost by old men.

I would not like to be replaced by someone who immediately sets about undoing what I've tried to do for 25-26 years.

I inherited the company from my father after he died very unexpectedly from a heart attack in 1966. He was just 51 years old, and I was 21.

I know I will leave my work unfinished. I just hope I planted enough seeds in my children and grandchildren that they will continue.

Who waiteth for dead man's shoes will go long barefoot.

One generation passes away, and another generation cometh forth: but the earth abides for ever.

If the father cannot, the son will finish the task.

Science advances by turning new ideas into standard ideas so each generation builds on the last.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.

Three hundred men, each of whom knows all the other, govern the fate of the European continent, and they elect their successors from their entourage.

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.

The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.

Three hundred men, all of whom know one another, direct the economic destiny of Europe and choose their successors from among themselves.

Because he was filming a movie and not shooting a documentary, John had a more complex setup than usual, utilizing three thirty-five-millimeter cameras. Each one would film in staggered succession, so that the film magazine changes would never happen all at once. There would never be a time when film was not rolling. We couldn't very well ask a crocodile to wait while a fresh mag was loaded into a camera.

We have got to have children," he said. "I know that if we have kids, they will carry on when we're gone." "Great," I said. "Let's get right on that.

From 235, over a period of 50 years, 49 men were proclaimed emperor by different groups of soldiers. We know that at least 25 of them were killed, not counting the three who committed suicide and one who seems to have been struck by lightning. In fact, apart from Gothicus, only one of them is known to have died a natural death – Valerian, who held on to the job for seven years and was safely locked away as a prisoner of the Persians when he expired in 260.

I hope that soon after the next election, amongst them they will have decided, settled, and the leader will be ready to take over from me.

Legacy is not what I did for myself. It's what I'm doing for the next generation.

Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation.

Music's cyclical. There's always that next generation that always comes along.

I have to continue to grow and take it to another level so the next generation has something to follow.

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