Quotes About Succession

But their refuge had been a dead end; all that inflexible old guard could do was to die and let younger minds, still limber, take over.

Oh, no, Sharpie. I've stood my watch; it's somebody else's turn. Now that you have resigned, we have no organization.

Max Planck once said that a new paradigm takes over not when it convinces its opponents, but when its opponents eventually die.

The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.

A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession.

I became the leader because of my father's leadership and I was considered as powerful as same as my own father.

Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.

The highest manifestation of true leadership is to identify one's replacement and to begin mentoring him or her.

The ultimate leaders develop followers who will surpass them.

True leadership is measured by what happens after you die.

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

It's like one obsession propels another that propels another.

thirteen months later, Costolo did take over as CEO from the then-CEO Evan Williams, a cofounder of the company.

Headmistress Flora (the formerly wicked stepmother) is handing over the reins to a new leader:

I leave to Avery Kylie Grambs.

This World is one great City, and one if the substance whereof it is fashioned: a certain period indeed there needs must be, while these give place to those; some must perish for others to succeed; some move and some abide: yet all is full of friends--first God, then Men, whom Nature hath bound by ties of kindred each to each.

A movement is pioneered by men of words, materialized by fanatics and consolidated by men of action. It is usually an advantage to a movement, and perhaps a prerequisite for its endurance, that these roles should be played by different men succeeding each other as conditions require. When the same person or persons (or the same type of person) leads a movement from its inception to maturity, it usually ends in disaster.

Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.

If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a bit and then passing it on to somebody else.

I've always been of the view that two-term presidency rule is a pretty good one and CEOs shouldn't overstay their welcome.

You always stand on the shoulders of your predecessor.

You can't grow if you're going to say: 'The contributions of my predecessors are greater than anything I can ever achieve.' Each generation has to have a chance to find itself.

It is the natural order of things that successive generations will achieve more than their predecessors.

As a first-generation inheritor, the first mandate is to preserve our family wealth and hopefully increase it.