Quotes About Succession

Glacier breathed between spasms of coughing. "There will be no War of IceWing Succession. Do you three understand me?

Maybe there would be no queen on the throne beside him.

This was the way it was meant to be, when parents slipped gently away, and the next generations moved on.

Most companies have succession plans for their leadership ranks, but it devolves into a rote exercise, and the organization lacks a clear sense of who will fill key roles in case of departure. It's another instance of what I call "compliance with words rather than compliance with intent.

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.

And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

It isn't the man who wants to who continues the tradition, it's the man who can, and sometimes he's the man who knows least about it.

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

No son wishes to see his son less powerful than himself.

the lawyers' saying 'Le mort saisit le vif'? The dead grip the living. The prince dies but his power passes at the moment of his death, there is no lapse, no interregnum

To gentle pressure, King Henry capitulated; the White Rose, aged twenty-four, was taken out into God's light and air, in order to have his head cut off. But there is always another White Rose; the Plantagenets breed, though not unsupervised. There will always

If a king cannot have a son, if he cannot do that, it matters not what else he can do. The victories, the spoils of victory, the just laws he makes, the famous courts he holds, these are as nothing.' It is true. To maintain the stability of the realm: this is the compact a king makes with his people. If he cannot have a son of his own, he must find an heir, name him before his country falls into doubt and confusion, faction and conspiracy. And who can Henry name, that will not be laughed

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

After seeing what Balekin is like, I want Dain on the throne more than ever.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

I have said I will not have a 30-year run like my father for a variety of reasons.

This is bench number two, and I'll take over bench number one when Old Joey dies, which shouldn't be long now. Mr Watson's got bench number three, so he'll get bench number two when I get bench number one. But I've already warned him he's going to have to wait a long time.

I gotta tell you, I do not envy whoever they try to put in David Letterman's chair. Folks those are some huge shoes to fill, and some really big pants.

You should train disciples and followers to work and perform better than you did

Success without a successor is a failure

And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

Five decades ago, as India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, began visibly ailing, the nation and the world were consumed by the question: 'After Nehru, who?' The inexpressible fear lay in the subtext to the question: 'After Nehru, what?'

My daughters will succeed me as owners of the firm.

Prince Philippe is well prepared to succeed me.