Succession 10 Best Logan Roy Quotes

Succession: 10 Best Logan Roy Quotes

Succession’s most powerful character has some of the show’s most cutting quotes. Though Logan Roy is known for his insults, he can also be insightful.

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In a cast of hilariously amoral characters, Logan Roy is perhaps the most duplicitous family member on Succession. However, when he’s not ordering Roman to laugh at the same volume as everyone else (he didn’t get him from a hyena farm), the patriarch of the Roy family also has some of the most insightful quotes on the show.

Although Logan is careful to reveal what he’s truly thinking, the audience occasionally gets a glimpse into his mind. From business and politics to philosophy and human nature, Logan’s musings demonstrate an acute understanding of what people truly want.

10 “Most Things Don’t Exist. The Ford Motor Company Hardly Exists. It’s Just A Time-Saving Expression For A Collection Of Financial Interests.”

Facing the difficult decision to choose a scapegoat amidst an investigation into Waystar’s extensive sexual assault coverup, Logan follows this quote up with the exception that family does exist. He tells his family that this is the reason why he believes he should be the one in the company to take the fall.

Logan’s musing that most things don’t exist is in line with the belief he seemingly has that lying is a game to be won, and whether people realize it or not they are playing towards the same end. The fact that he ended up choosing Kendall to take the fall indicates that, perhaps, family exists as a collection of financial interests just as the Ford Motor Company is.

9 “You Want A Bit About Old, F****ing Rosebud? Rosebud Is A Dollar. It’s Whatever It Took To Get Me The F***k Out Of Here.”

One of the second season’s most critically acclaimed episodes, “Dundee”, followed Logan and the rest of the Roy family on a trip to his hometown in Scotland to celebrate his 50th anniversary as CEO of Waystar Royco. As he and Connor carpool across town together, Connor asks Logan to tell a story.

Instead of offering a story to his son, he injects a dose of realism. Referencing a famous plot device from one of Orson Welles’ best movies Citizen Kane, Logan rejects the idea of there being an underlying, tragic motive from his youth that led him to succeed, as newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane’s had been a childhood sled named Rosebud. Although, it’s probably not a coincidence that his late sister, whose death he supposedly blames himself for, is named Rose.

8 “Not To Be Crude, But Politics Is What Comes Out The A**hole. Wouldn’t You Rather Be Upfront, Feeding The Horse?”

Despite the ethical dilemmas within his own industry, Logan views politicians as beneath him and lacking a degree of professional integrity that even high-profile CEOs like him are capable of possessing. This sense of superiority is justified in a scene where the U.S. president is left on hold when he calls Logan, only for the president to offer a submissive apology over another matter after Logan finally picks up.

In this analogy that Logan uses in another episode to poke fun at his political fixer daughter Shiv, the media business is shaping the world by feeding it with calculated information and perceptions. On the other hand, politics must react to and obey these perceptions in order to sustain itself.

7 “I Make My Nut Off What People Really Want. Don’t Tell Me About People – I’d Go Flat Broke In A Week If I Didn’t.”

In addition to being one of Succession’s best characters at hurling insults and put-downs, Logan also has a talent for and willingness to manipulate the world and the people around him by appealing to their desires. It’s why, as the long-time CEO of a giant conglomerate, he has been able to navigate the evolving and attention-based world of the media business.

However, this quote also informs the audience on what he’s truly thinking in scenes where he talks with his children one-on-one. Knowing they all desperately crave his approval, his frequent tactics when he has something to gain include telling his children that they’re his “number one.” He even ever so vaguely implies to each of his kids in private that wants to name them as his successor, as though it’s a special secret between the two of them.

6 “Three Thousand Miles To Pose With Signage. Thank F**k I’m Not Busy.”

Despite being a talented liar, Logan appears to loathe the public relations aspect of his career and doesn’t necessarily seek out the spotlight for himself. His trip back to Dundee was almost solely for the sake of PR, and his reluctance to pose for pictures was featured throughout the episode.

In moments like this, Logan demonstrates his lack of respect for performing for the sake of attention. While he performs regularly in terms of lying interpersonally, Logan, as one of Succession’s most powerful characters, does this in order to earn more influence. He views performing in his business and personal life as a means to win a game, whereas performing for others’ approval is weak.

5 “If Your Hands Are Clean, It’s Only Because Your Whorehouse Also Does Manicures.”

In season 3 of Succession, Logan is deciding on who he should designate to be the temporary CEO while he waits out the result of the sexual assault investigation, his CFO Karl attempts to put his own name forward. Looking for a candidate who’s scandal-free, Logan’s brutal response to Karl demonstrated his difficulty in finding a CEO without a dubious record towards women.

Not only is this possibly one of Logan’s best insults, but it also reflects how he likely never believed his casual acceptance of the cruise-ship assaults would catch up to him. The fact that Karl believed he could be an option for CEO is likely, in part, a product of how Logan had previously run his company.

4 “You Make Your Own Reality. And Once You’ve Done It, Apparently, Everyone’s Of The Opinion It Was All So F****ing Obvious.”

In a moment of frustration, Logan vents about the criticism he’s received over the years for business moves that others deemed to be stupid. In spite of the fact that his foresight was correct in retrospect, he notes that history and public opinion have come to view such moves as inevitable rather than impressive.

Rather than that his decisions, which have led him to massive success, were obvious, Logan emphasizes that his choices were the culmination of hard work. Even though technology is always changing and this forces media companies to adapt, Logan credits his staying power to his knowing how to force his own reality onto others.

3 “People Come To Us Because We Don’t Sell Them On Anything. No Packet Of F***king Bleeding Heart, United Nations-Volvo-Gender-Bender Horses***.”

Even though Logan largely looks down on human nature, he doesn’t entirely underestimate the public’s intelligence. In this quote, he doesn’t see virtue-signaling as an effective marketing tactic for his company.

Rather, he seems to believe that people are generally able to see right through virtue-signaling since it has become so common in modern advertisements. However, this quote may instead symbolize how out-of-touch he is with his audience as Waystar increasingly loses its edge in the market.

2 “Sometimes, It Is A Big D**k Competition.”

Kendall, often appearing to rely on the business management textbooks he learned in college, has the art of negotiation simplified for him in this quote by Logan. According to Logan, bullying over reason is occasionally the way to go when making a deal.

With a knack for recognizing people’s weaknesses, Logan understands how to intimidate others when he needs to. He sees negotiation as yet another game to be won, and the best way to play is to appeal to what understands to be his opponents’ deepest fears and desires.

1 “The Future Is Real. The Past Is All Made Up.”

At his 50th anniversary celebration in Dundee, Shiv wonders why Logan doesn’t seem to harbor much nostalgia for his hometown. His response reveals a major disregard of the past as being mostly a fabrication of memory and human nature’s inclination to make sense of the world through stories.

Though Logan seems to have existential disbelief in almost everything, including the idea of family to some extent, the future and the present stand out as the only real concepts to him. He believes in taking hold of his own reality as opposed to being a pawn in others’.

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