Successor Quotations

My successor may need to be more modern than I am. It's a question of generations.

True leaders don't invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people.

I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me.

I knew my successor would be better than me for the next stage of the company's life. And it was a relief - I'd been doing it for 30 years. My only worry was what the hell I was going to do with my time.

After guest appearances, I got the offer to do the show as the successor of Arthur Schwartz. It's so much fun.

I have given myself one objective, to be the long-awaited successor to Francois Mitterrand.

We are engaged in immediate conversations with the White House on deliberations over a successor whom we hope will continue in the general direction of Attorney General Holder.

We have really worked hard at establishing a foundation for success. I feel comfortable leaving, I think the foundation is there for my successor to be successful.

The court will be in an extremely unsettled and uncertain situation until Justice O'Connor's successor is confirmed and seated. No one including the justices themselves will know for sure whether the nine justices who hear a case will be the same nine who will decide it.

So if you want to call him a successor you may call him a successor. But he came to the same conclusion - that to be a Jewish, democratic, independent state we have to separate.

I am confident that the passing of the torch from Chairman Greenspan to his successor will be smooth and seamless.

If the successor is somebody else (besides Koizumi), that would be little help for stocks.

Kim . . . doesn't want foreign interference in succession, or for foreigners to try to cut deals with his chosen successor instead of himself.

I will fulfill my mandate and focus entirely on governing from now until February 2004 -- at which time my work will be done and at which time my successor will be chosen,

I suppose 99 point something percent will have been scrapped. One or two will have been kept deliberately for reference purposes - the best way to keep one's successor from making mistakes to keep one or two in the archive. Whether one or two get out into the public realm, I don't know.

Looking ahead we will be taking our time to appoint a successor for what will be another very important season for the club in 2006.

Whoever the successor is, he will inherit a complex situation and serious credibility problem.

You are far from being the successor to Sharon. You proved today that you are fearful, confused and manipulative. You exhibited stupidity and opacity.

We are delighted to be appointed successor depositary by British Airways and look forward to supporting the company's goal of enhancing its base of US investors.

The program has not lived up to my expectations the last few years. By stepping aside at this time, it will allow my successor the opportunity to come in and return the program to national prominence.

We are excited to be able to make this historical announcement on this important new product at CES, the world's premier consumer electronics show. Going forward, HD DVD is destined to be a key driver for progress and the development of the CE, IT and entertainment industries. We look forward to building on the momentum of CES and making HD DVD a worthy successor to DVD.

Unfortunately, his successor is likely to face equally strong challenges over the next few years, whether or not pension reform legislation passes.

We expect Jim's successor to be selected in plenty of time to make a smooth transition. The new person will likely be named sometime in the fall.

Bringing in a successor when a popular social policy is in place would be considerably easier.

The timing could not be worse, as is the fact that no successor is named and the search is just getting under way.

It would have been useful to have had a nomination of a successor prior to Jackson Hole because, in a way, Jackson Hole is a farewell to Chairman Greenspan.

Queen Victoria - this flabby, fat, flatulent looking scion and successor of the most ignoble line of Royal Georges - Her chief claim to the remembrance of posterity will be that she has the means of afflicting the English people with a most prolific

Now if he doesn't call a special election before Nov. 7, we here in the south of Houston region will be without a congressman in the middle of hurricane season while the country's at war and the whole immigrant reform debate is going on on Capitol Hill. This is an effort to give Tom DeLay a chance to handpick his successor and give him time to catch up to the campaigning that's already been done in this district.

This is as much a domestic issue as an overseas issue. At home, Kim wants to maintain complete control, particularly at this critical time of economic experimentation. He doesn't want foreign interference in succession, or for foreigners to try to cut deals with his chosen successor instead of himself.

This is a new testing stage. The successor has to be tested out in an executive position.

This is an unusual year because this is the first time there hasn't been a kind of natural successor in the party.

As Ms. Fitch will work through June 30, she will complete the fiscal year and her successor will be drawn from the new pool now forming.

Every attorney is mandated by law and by ethics to maintain the confidences and secrets in every file until the file is turned over to a successor attorney. Every attorney has the obligation to ensure that the attorney that's taking over the file does not have a conflict of interest relating to that file.

It's certainly not too soon to speculate on a successor to Mori and I'd rate Hashimoto a 40 percent chance of taking the job,

It's a natural part of the transition. Once his successor was named, it made sense that he kind of take a step back.

It's very flattering and it was nice of Sven but to say that but I have to be polite and say it's not right to talk about a successor while he's still England manager.

If you think about it, the successor to Sandra Day O'Connor should objectively be a lot more controversial than the successor to Chief Justice Rehnquist, ... The successor to Rehnquist . . . won't change the balance of power on these hot-button issues as might Roberts' nomination.

In 2009, I'll be 59 years old and will have had this dream job for 17 years. I felt that the timing was right to plan for my successor and there is no one more qualified than Conan.

In 2009, I'll be 59 years old and will have had this dream job for 17 years, ... I felt that the timing was right to plan for my successor and there is no one more qualified than Conan.

I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.

Gorbachev was literally hated in the 1990s. He was seen as the destroyer of the Soviet Union, the destroyer of everything that generations and generations had built. But much of that was fueled in the '90s, as it played into the hands of Boris Yeltsin, his successor in government.

The greatest honor President Bush can give the Chief Justice is to nominate a successor committed to his legacy of shifting the balance of Court to the written Constitution, ... It's the only 'balance of the Court' that matters.