Quotes About Succession

It is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.

The dead man has no place in Parliament; he cannot bequeath his membership and he can never know for certain who will succeed him after his death.

This is what happens. You live past your time of importance and relevance and the world must be given over to the younger ones.

I must have an heir. Do you understand?" He grit his teeth and said, as if he were pulling the words, bloody and torn, from his very heart, "I must marry a woman who can bear children.

I know that age to age succeeds,Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds,A dust of systems and of creeds.

All's change, but permanence as well"... and continued:   "Truth inside, and outside, truth also; and between each, falsehood that is change, as truth is permanence."   "Truth successively takes shape, one grade above its last presentment...

Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.

Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.

If you look back 600 years ago, royals' sole goal was to keep their wealth within the family.

Marriage has been a way of attempting to ensure the replication of power and wealth from one generation of another, passing it down from men to men.

I'm not giving up politics entirely - I'm just giving up leadership of a political party.

Just like a politician's son or daughter joins politics, it happens in our industry, too.

In Pakistan politics is hereditary.

The pope dies, you get another pope.

I will continue to help run my father's company.

I see my work as a continuum, moving from book to book.

So if I die, somebody else from the corporation will take over the business.

I've lost count of all my assistant coaches who have been made head coaches.

When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.

If there's been a crisis in a market, you don't tend to have a new crisis in that market until the people who went through the last crisis aren't in the system anymore.

It's an evolution. The same team doesn't always dominate, and it goes in cycles.

No, I firmly believe in giving my place to another person. We have a lot of talent back home. I don't want to hang on for just the sake of hanging on.

My dad told me he wanted me to join in the business, but nothing was firm. He was quite young when he died, so we hadn't talked about it in depth.

Eerily, the coronation was kind of a reverse of Tatiana?s funeral. What was the old saying? The queen is dead. Long live the queen