Steve Jobs Quotes

What I'm interested in doing after I get out of the presidency is to make sure that I'm working with that next generation so that they understand you can't just rely on inspiration.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

As our parents planted for us, so will we plant for our children. When Charlie and I began our philanthropic journey, we wanted to focus our resources on planting seeds that would help perpetuate Jewish values and traditions for future generations and also contribute to repairing our world.

How much more must this be so in my own case for I am conscious not only of the great names and achievements of those who have preceded me, but also of the living presence of many of my masters and teachers.

I have always played into the belief that you are only ever borrowing the jersey; you never own the jersey because someone has gone before you and there is going to be someone after you, so it's a case of giving the jersey maximum respect.

I'm sure that Elvis was happy for me. I think he was the kind of guy that enjoyed other people's success, especially if he had something to do with it.

It's very difficult to fill the shoes of somebody like Rahul Bhai. He has set the bench mark for a generation to come. However, it's our responsibility to carry forward his legacy.

Elders are the books of the young.

Why we should put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity, for what has posterity ever done for us?

When you sit at the feet of an elder, it changes you.

I hope the young guys who are playing today realize what they have been given and will take it upon themselves to give back in return.

One of the reasons I like to teach is that I like to pass things on. That's an unspoken law of show business.

As I walk to my office every morning, I know I stand on the shoulders of those who came before me.

One thing you learn very rapidly in this business is that you are part of a continuing tradition.

It's very important to me to give something back - to pass on my know-how, to give all the lessons I learned onto the next generation so they don't make the same mistakes.

Only the very best clubs are able to pass the baton of continuity down through the generations.

I stood on people's shoulders, so I want to be there for somebody else to take it even further.

It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.

Leaders are like gardeners ... As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success but for cultivating the success of the next generation.

The worst mistake a leader can make is to mentor no one, choose no successor and leave no legacy.

You take what you've learned, you pass it down, and you keep working.

The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come to appreciate it.

Why do we tell stories? It's because we want to connect to people, we want to tell them who we are, we want to tell them a story that affects us, that impacts us. And to help a young filmmaker doing a short or independent film is my testament, I think, is my desire to really make sure that our younger generations get passed along all the elders' experience and to literally have the image - to literally carry them on their shoulders and say, 'This is what the world is. This is how the world operates. Let me show you how.'

If you get something for nothing, part of you may be pleased, but part of you moves your hand to give something back.

Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter.