Jay Chiat Quotes

Success is not success without a successor.

We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.

I'm so excited to be carrying on in Dad's footsteps and making sure that everything he worked so hard for continues for the generations to come.

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 hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation.

They keep the old business. We keep the ongoing business.

It embodied what came before. Illuminated what came after.

We all leave unfinished work; we cannot complete it; those who come after us take it up and conform it to their will

You always stand on the shoulders of your predecessor.

You can see things growing up, be inspired by things. Just because they're not around anymore doesn't mean that you can't take those inspirations and bring them to life and bring them to the next generation.

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

My father has a movement that started before us. As his children, we are just the stewards to build on his foundation.

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.

Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.

Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.

When you have children, you realize that at the end, it's all about passing on, about handing down.

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.

I have a view that if you build something that's good, and you keep making it better, it lasts.

I think you're only as good as the work that you do.

Having a child is sowing the seeds of your own obsolescence: birth is the fuse that leads to that other thing. You appear, you replace yourself, you die.

Good work is good work wherever it is.

We are tomorrow's past.

No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that.

One test of leaders is how they make sure that their ideas and programs will live on after they’re gone.

Anyone who has ever watched a child's eyes wander into sleep knows what posterity is. Posterity is the world to come.