Naveen Patnaik Quotes

I repeat for the umpteenth time, without making apologies: My children have had more than their fair share of presidency under their father. There cannot be any hereditary transfer of power.

I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.

I am reproached for allegedly preparing my children, my eldest son, as a successor. I swear to you I have never discussed this idea, even with my family or with my sons.

I am Emperor, my descendants will be numerous. From the second generation to the ten thousandth, my line will not end.

Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.

The bump I was trying to hide could be the future king of England.

Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.

My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!

Prince Philippe is well prepared to succeed me.

I don't know how many companies I've bought in my life, and most of them I've bought from children whose father has passed away, and they say, 'Now we're free, would you like to buy it?'

Whoever of my fortunate sons shall chance to rule my empire?

The crown is not my right and pleases me not. Lady Mary is the heir.

When I took over the family business, it had already been a publicly traded company for 20 years. During one of the first annual meetings I attended, one shareholder stood up and advised me and everyone in attendance that I should resign.

Big Foster is a guy who was in line to be the head of this clan that's been up in the mountains for 200 years, because his father was the leader or the Bren'in, his mother is now Bren'in, and they're kind of royalty, so he was in line to be next. He'd been promised it from a young age, but it just hasn't happened.

The monarchy is thousands of years old and has experienced many things like 'The Crown' in the past. They're always changing and evolving; that's the thing. They have to.

One child is never enough for a monarch.

I grew up in a family that felt indifferent towards the royal family.

I will continue to help run my father's company.

In some ways, Cash and Carter is a family business that's been handed to me.

I think the fact that father is running now as opposed to in 2012 where he didn't that he's had enough faith in myself and my siblings to be able to run the company.We've got tens of thousands of people that are under his direct employ. Those people, he wouldn't leave a company and leave those people and their lives and everything they've put into it at risk if he didn't think there was competent leadership to take over after him.

Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of age. Your uncle becomes king." "Yes." "Unorthodox.

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

No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations.

If a better person emerges, I will hand over management control.

I have worked extraordinarily hard for decades to ensure the success of our family business for all of the Middleton family.