From his grandfather Sonny, a church handyman who never called in sick, he inherited the work ethic that has led him to deny the severity of every injury.
Whoever that new CEO is, they will inherit the work of Arianna Huffington, the media operator turned sleep expert turned Uber rehabilitator-in-chief.
Metro-North, formed in 1983 from the old Conrail commuter lines, largely inherited the work rules of its parent, which was mostly a freight railroad.
The Hastings-on-Hudson school district and the village of Hastings both claim to have inherited the work, and the museum has refused to release the painting until the dispute is settled.
To settle the dispute with Killala, Mr. Weissman's lawyer wrote a letter last year saying that his client learned that the collector was a John Gerzso, who lived in Mexico and Switzerland, and had inherited the work from his father.
In Symphony No. 9, the person I work with, to inherit the work, is Katita Waldo.
The acquisition is no doubt a landmark addition to the museum's already existing Rauschenberg collection, as well as a giant relief to the Sonnabend heirs who inherited the work in 2007.
Samantha and Ryan both inherited the work ethic: she got it from her father, who owned a fleet of trucks and delivered meat to restaurants on Long Island; Ryan got it from his mother, a single parent who worked as a nurse, and who encouraged her son's flair for cooking.
An alternative would be to prove that Mr Gurlitt inherited the works "in bad faith", in which case he never properly owned them in the first place.
In addition, the Kahlo family, which did not inherit the works of the artist, who was the wife of the muralist Diego Rivera, is putting out a Frida Kahlo line of shawls, jewelry and sunglasses.
Beginning in 1994, Ms. Rosales wove a story about these never-before-seen works, telling Knoedler and Mr. Weissman that the owner had inherited the works from his father and insisted on remaining anonymous.
