Successors Quotes

• Leadership success is measured by the success of your successor.

  Myles Munroe

  Success Is Measured By, Success Is Measured

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• If you have achieved any level of success, then pour it into someone else. Success is not success without a successor.

  T. D. Jakes

  Levels, Ifs

  T. D. Jakes (2007). “T.D. Jakes Speaks to Men, 3-in-1”, p.102, Bethany House

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• There is no success without a successor.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leader

  John C. Maxwell (2002). “Your Road Map For Success: You Can Get There from Here”, p.220, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  Land, Vision, May

  Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915). “York State Rural Problems”

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

  Steve Jobs

  Jobs, Team, Trying

  "Steve Jobs speaks out", archive.fortune.com.

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

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Easy, Difficult, Predecessors

  Eiji Yoshikawa, Charles S. Terry (1989). “Way of Life and Death”, Pocket

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• The final test of greatness in a CEO is how well he chooses a successor and whether he can step aside and let the successor run the company.

  Peter Drucker

  Running, Greatness, Finals

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• Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.

  Emile Durkheim

  Order, Movement, Generations

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.372, Simon and Schuster

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• In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it. ... In art nothing worth doing can be done without genius; in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.

  Bertrand Russell

  Art, Science, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays”, p.41, Booklassic

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• Hey, nothing grows to the sky. There will be a successor movement. Right now its nascent.

  Peter Brimelow

  Sky, Hey, Movement

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• For a leader to pick his own successor is a feudal practice.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Practice, Leader, Picks

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• Nothing is more incumbent on the old than to know when they should get out of the way and relinquish to younger successors the honors they can no longer earn, and the duties they can no longer perform.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Honor, Way, Should

  Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815”, p.247, Princeton University Press

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• The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

  Washington Irving

  Sports, Hero, Idols

  Washington Irving (2006). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book”, p.144, Penguin

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• If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

  Simone Weil

  Past, Europe, Civilization

  Simone Weil (1962). “Selected Essays: 1934-1943”, London, Oxford U.P

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• When you write a program, think of it primarily as a work of literature. You're trying to write something that human beings are going to read. Don't think of it primarily as something a computer is going to follow. The more effective you are at making your program readable, the more effective it's going to be: You'll understand it today, you'll understand it next week, and your successors who are going to maintain and modify it will understand it.

  Donald Knuth

  Writing, Thinking, Next Week

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• Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Love, Peace, Voting

  Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). “Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings”, p.169, Stanford University Press

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• A lot of the reason why the debate is acrimonious is because of the 24/7 news cycles, blogs, and people being able to just throw something out there in order to get attention. And I'm not going be out there doing the same thing, trying to trash my successor or call attention to myself. I hope that's a positive contribution to the dialogue.

  George W. Bush

  Order, People, Trying

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• Romanists tell us that the Pope is the vicar of Christ; that he is his successor as the universal head and ruler of the Church on earth. If this is so, he must be a Christ.

  Charles Hodge

  Church, Earth, Christ

  Charles Hodge (1855). “What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855”, p.50

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• Success is not success without a successor.

  T. D. Jakes

  Inspirational, Divine

  T. D. Jakes (2011). “Can You Stand to Be Blessed?: Insights to Help You Survive the Peaks and Valleys”, p.80, Destiny Image Publishers

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• [on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

  Claude Debussy

  Beautiful, Sunset, Sunrise

  Time Magazine, December 7, 1953.

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• Three hundred men, all of whom know one another, direct the economic destiny of Europe and choose their successors from among themselves.

  Walther Rathenau

  Destiny, Men, Europe

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• Everyone must be clear that business as usual is not an option. Most of us live in buildings erected long before we were born and our successors will have to live with the environmental consequences of the buildings we construct today. It is vital that we minimise harmful impacts for those who come after us

  Margaret Beckett

  Business, Impact, Long

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• The Holy Apostolic See and the Roman Pontiff have primacy in the entire world. The Roman Pontiff is the Successor of Blessed Peter, the Prince of the Apostles, true Vicar of Christ, Head of the whole Church, Father and Teacher of all Christians.

  Pope Benedict XIV

  Christian, Teacher, Father

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• Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7, may finally be a worthy successor to XP, eliminating the clutter of Vista and letting users get to what they want to use without the fuss. All this, while remaining compatible with their IT departments' demands for scalability and custom implementations.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Use, Microsoft, Demand

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• All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.

  Jared Diamond

  Improvement, Invention, Made

  Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.214, W. W. Norton & Company

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