Both Mr Ahmadinejad and his mentor, Mr Khamenei, share this attitude in spades.
President Habibie is widely viewed as too tainted by his ties to his mentor, Mr Suharto.
One MP recalls how in 2001 Mr Jaitley, a minister then, mentored Mr Modi, taking him to meet the capital's power-brokers.
Like his mentor, Mr de Castries is an entrepreneur who wants "fun, action and business" from life; he finds them at Axa.
In a section devoted to his strained relations with his one-time mentor, Mr Sarkozy pays him the palest of tributes.
Signalling a reluctance to break with his mentor, Mr Alfano said he had decided to be "Berlusconian in a different way".Several explanations lay behind the revolt.
Both Mr Bo's case and that of his mentor, Mr Zhou, have exposed the power and wealth of family networks within the leadership and their extensive influence in business.
His business dealings are now being investigated by the public prosecutor's office.As finance minister during the first presidential term of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Ms Rousseff's predecessor and political mentor, Mr Palocci imposed the fiscal austerity that transformed his boss from socialist firebrand into darling of the financial markets.
Derided as a poor copy of his mentor, Mr Maduro has not been ousted by the opposition or by rivals in his own party, as some had predicted when he was elected in April 2013.
Haydn Gwynne also makes his mentor, Mrs Wilkinson, slightly less of a comic character than she was in the film.
The King is an absolutist, but so is his mentor, "Mrs. Anna".
