Quotes about Succession
Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.
- Jesse Jackson
The highest manifestation of true leadership is to identify one's replacement and to begin mentoring him or her.
- Myles Munroe
True leadership is measured by what happens after you die.
- Myles Munroe
Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.
- Andrew Carnegie
What can be explained can also be predicted, if one knows the initial events and the laws covering their succession.
- James Carse
The hold on power always ends. While death will surely break it, someone else usually grabs it before then.
- Michael Wolff
I'm a dad, and I no longer see a way for my kids to even inherit the money that I'm making, let alone go out there, have an idea, and create it in their own lifetime.
- Glenn Beck
Your goal as a leader isn't to be indispensable to the people you lead; it is to leave your people something that is indispensable to them.
- John Maxwell
One of Wordsworth's Lake District neighbours remarked upon hearing of the poet's death "I suppose his son will carry on the business."
- Anonymous
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
- John Adams