Quotes About Succession

Cyrus and Darius created Persia, Xerxes inherited it, his successors destroyed it.

Sumeria was to Babylonia, and Babylonia to Assyria, what Crete was to Greece, and Greece to Rome:

Perhaps Tarde and James are right, and all history is a succession of inventions made by genius and turned into conventions by the people, a series of initiatives taken by adventurous leaders and spread among the masses of mankind by the waves of imitation.

each in its order place

Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown.

caliphs (khalifa means 'deputy' – that is to say, of God), ruled

The Queen's decisions to voluntarily pay income taxes, to mothball the royal yacht HMS Britannia, and to end primogeniture—the thousand-year-old rule stipulating that males have precedence over females in the line of succession—all grew out of Way Ahead Group deliberations.

For the first time in the kingdom's history, all the contenders for the crown that Edward was about to relinquish were female.

W]ithin our ego, there is succession without mutual externality; outside the ego, in pure space, mutual externality without succession.

Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea.

there is and can be no beginning to any event, for one event always flows uninterruptedly from another. The

Where the legs have gone the hind legs must follow

Over the course of those ten days of his illness, all of the men who were to be the first five caliphs of Islam would be in and out of his sickroom: two fathers-in-law, abu-Bakr and Omar; two sons-in-law, Ali and Uthman; and a brother-in-law, Muawiya. But how that would happen, and in what order, was to remain the stuff of discord.

And a very strong one, since it would reach deep into the future. The two fathers-in-law, abu-Bakr and Omar, were to be the first two leaders of Islam after Muhammad's death, each acclaimed as his successor or khalifa—caliph in English—and they would be immediately followed by the two sons-in-law, Uthman and Ali. By both giving and taking in marriage, Muhammad was establishing the leadership matrix of the new Islamic community.

Altering the rules of succession and coups d'état is all fun and games until the crown actually hits the hairline. Then somebody's gonna get hurt.

But these structures, forming different levels, are to be regarded as succeeding one another according to a law of development, such that each one brings about a more inclusive and stable equilibrium for the processes that emerge from the preceding level.

We must keep ourselves busy with finding ways to generate wealth for generations to come and work to pass down things to our children for them to pass down to their children.

People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.

Transferring successfully to the next generation means producing work that's as good as or better than the work of the first generation that founded the agency.

Generally, older people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are running most countries and are CEOs of corporations. Which isn't to say there aren't entrepreneurs, but if the young were better in every respect, there'd be no reason for the old. Our life span reflects our particular life strategy.

Keep working and saving and striving for a better future for your children, and for their children, even if you won't be around to see it pay off.

I started reading about media moguls in general, and Sumner Redstone and Rupert Murdoch both made the same joke: they both were asked, 'What will happen when you die?' and they both said they didn't plan to die. It just struck me: what's going on with these men in their 80s and 90s who are still packing their diaries every day?

Interestingly, many Indian companies where there's a father-and-son combination are being run as joint CEO organizations because the father has not given up running the company and the son is actively involved in running the company, and there is division of responsibilities.

As Antiquus's son, I was next in line to be the leader of my village... But leadership is not inherited. It is earned through action.