Quotes About Leadership

The number of people who have successfully scaled a company from dream to post-IPO success - you could list them on the fingers of two hands.

You know, in Saudi Arabia, there is a body of 40 people - 34 people exactly, that once the succession comes, they will meet and they will elect a king in there.

Sometimes in your career, you are at the right place at the right moment. But you have to be aware that eventually you may no longer be the right person for that position. So build your succession and foster for it while you are still at the peak of you career.

The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan.

Abby Johnson has agreed to become Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity, reflecting a further step forward in our leadership succession plan. Abby will retain her role of President, and I will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board.

I really do believe in succession building and giving people experience for future leadership.

The role of a board of directors is to be a sounding board for the vision of the company - to hold executives accountable in executing that vision and to ensure a management succession plan is in place.

I think we're ready for succession. We just must try to do it right.

There's loads of succession stories to draw on.

Succession moments are always dangerous for democracies.

I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.

I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy.

I think nobody should rash things and try to find the successor of Kobe Bryant.

Messrs. Washington and Lincoln would be appalled and saddened by what their successor, President Obama, and the modern Democratic Party are doing to the nation they dedicated their lives to keep alive.

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

President Ford was taken for a ride by his predecessor, whom he unpardonably pardoned; Jimmy Carter was also taken for a ride, but by his successor, Ronald Reagan, over the return of the Iran hostages.

I feel too young in 2018 to take over the Berlin Philharmonic as the successor to Simon Rattle.

Who my successor is will be up to the board, not me.

I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor.

Every global leader that I have seen has at least agreed on one point: I do have the world's most difficult job. But I hope to make it easier for my successor.

The Lord specifically told me that He has appointed and anointed Daniel Kolenda as my successor.

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.

Two considerations led President Carlos Salinas de Gortari to choose Luis Donaldo Colosio as his successor: history and loyalty.

Everywhere I've managed, I've left a platform for my successor to build on, and this is a great satisfaction for me, even if I don't necessarily get the recognition for it.