Alexander Lukashenko Quotes

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.

Dynastic rule is when you are groomed to succeed. My father never groomed me to take over.

Any father likes his son to take over from him if possible.

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?'

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.

If the children of a group's founder are to take over that group, they need the endorsement of society.

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

My daughters will succeed me as owners of the firm.

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.

I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name Christopher Hitchens.

I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast

Few strong leaders are enthusiastic about their successors.

Dad correctly said to me, 'Gina, you'll rue the day if I let you take your mother's shares for the benefit of the children.' He was right.

My father made bridal dresses, which he sold wholesale, and always wanted me to join him. He looked upon what I did as precarious and frivolous - except that he loved it when my name was in the papers.

Interestingly, many Indian companies where there's a father-and-son combination are being run as joint CEO organizations because the father has not given up running the company and the son is actively involved in running the company, and there is division of responsibilities.

I'm not being presumptuous, I hope, when I say that 'The Crown' is little bit like 'The Godfather.' It is essentially about a family in power and survival.

When the founders retire, it's always difficult for the second generation and third generation.

I always saw myself working for the family business.

My father is definitely not the kind of guy who'd place his children in key roles within his organization if he didn't think we could surpass the expectations he had for us.

My sister and I, fortunately, have been in this business for a very long time. Ever since we were 11. Throughout those years, people have always wanted to know our dynamic.

It doesn't bother me whether I am or I'm not compared to my dad. I do not feel any pressure at all from being his son.

Being the way I used to be didn't really fit the family profile. I was always loved but if, say, Dad had an interesting business idea I'd be the last person he'd want to share it with in case I blew the lid on it.

I'll go on '60 Minutes,' and whereas other parents would be like, 'You did a great job. I'm so proud of you,' my mother will be like, 'Your hair - it was not nice.'

I never one time mentioned anything to any coach about retirement or joining the CIA or anything like that.