Quotes About Succession

I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.

I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, & are in a perpetual flux and movement.

It's not over when a man lays down his gun. The question remains as to which fellow will pick up the weapon next. That's politics.

Napoleon was indeed the man sent by God to help the youth of France! Who is to take his place?

My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.

History's just one darn thing after another.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.

The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.

The history of second-generation actors isn't great in our industry.

Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.

I do hope after my crossing that more people will follow suit.

One of us might be assassinated and then my heir will be king. Don't give up hope just because chances are slim." "For the assassination or the heir, your majesty?

We don't think of ourselves as a dynasty. I really hope some of my grandkids will be actively involved in politics.

There is no question about that. Business is my hobby. It is not a burden to me. In any case Reliance now can run without me.

Success is not success without a successor.

It's a sheer-madness for a father not to see his son greater than him

Because what he couldn't know, what no one at that time could know, was what would happen after the death of old King Sverker.

Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.

as a general proposition, until very recently, vice presidents have always been excluded because it is unsettling to have someone around you whose happiest moment will be when you drop dead.

In the music business, especially the country music business, every 10 years or so you're going to have this changing of the guard, this wave of new artists that comes in.

The most natural action of a senior official is to breed junior officials.

CEOs and senior leaders who are thinking about leaving a company have effectively already left, and the biggest favor they can do the organization is to get out of the way and allow the business to change and grow.

Detrás de la sucesión aparentemente aleatoria o hasta caótica de sucesos que acontecen en la vida y también en el mundo yace oculto el desenvolvimiento de un orden y un propósito superiores. El proverbio Zen lo expresa bellamente: La nieve cae copo por copo, cada uno en su lugar preciso