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Don't speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn't walk in their shoes.

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

I am determined to hold on as long as possible, but if I should disappear, I should not have had the time to familiarize my successors with the necessary information.

I don't feel like I need to be a successor to my mother, or her work.

I always see other people as predecessors and admire them.

I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors!

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

I'm not the last of the old bosses. I'm the first of the new leaders.

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.