Quotes About Succession

When he eventually retires, his organisation will be little different from the one he inherited. It will definitely not have achieved anything remarkable.

Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.

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.

If you look back at our history, we always tend to see drivers in waves move in one direction so it's not uncommon to have three, four or five of your top drivers exit for different reasons in a short period of time, two years, whatever it is.

It is a characteristic of potentates that they don't succumb to peaceful retirement. Instead, they hold power in their hoary fists as judgment and grip weaken, destroying any successors except family members.

At clubs like Liverpool, great players come and go.

In 1997, my father appointed me CEO but acted as player-coach, keeping busy on long-term clients such as KFC and international travel brands.

I've said I will be CEO as long as my colleagues want me.

A sequence works in a way a collection never can.

I think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan.

I never wanted to go to the Old Vic and not have it survive long after I was gone. It's not about me; it's about that theater. And the more that it's able to grow and do everything it should do without me, then I've done my job.

Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.

Family business stays in the family," was a mantra Maxine had heard all her life.

The world is a mere succession of fortunes made and lost, lessons learned and forgotten and learned again.)

For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me. Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy.

The day I leave the power, inside my pockets will only be dust.

Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family

I' the commonwealth I would by contrariesExecute all things; for no kind of trafficWould I admit; no name of magistrate;Letters should not be known; riches, poverty,And use of service, none; contract, succession,Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none;No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil;No occupation; all men idle, all;And women too, but innocent and pure.

This is the English, not the Turkish court;Not Amurath an Amurath succeeds,But Harry Harry.

For slander lives upon succession,Forever housed where it gets possession.

Science makes progress funeral by funeral: the old are never converted by the new doctrines, they simply are replaced by a new generation. —Max Planck

Your assignment is a pre-cursor to someone else's assignment. In the same breath, someone else's assignment is a pre-cursor to yours.

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

El de entonces soy yo todavía, o si no soy él soy su prolongación, o su sombra, o su heredero, o su usurpador. No hay ningún otro que se le parezca tanto.