Norman R. Augustine Quotes

Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.

The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.

I think probably - I think, you know, when you're first dating somebody, if they're just not that physical with you, if they don't want to make concrete plans with you, you know, if they're sort of ambiguous about where everything is going, I think that's a pretty good sign that they're not into you.

What do you need to succeed in business? You need the ability to think critically and communicate, and those things you can get just as easily out of a philosophy degree.

I think my clients would tell you I'm a problem solver. I'm not there to agree with people. I'm there to articulate a point of view. Am I insistent and tenacious? Absolutely. I could not get this work done if I was not.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film - whether it's history, psychology, economics, or architecture - so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn't going to help you unless you have something to say.

Every problem can be solved as long as they use common sense and apply the right research and techniques.

I like to figure things out and solve problems.

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.

We're always looking for candidates that have new approaches to problems.

I've learned to mumble with great incoherence.

Debates measure abilities you don't need to govern, like glibness. To govern you should be thoughtful, not glib. A debater has a sense of humor, but what's it got to do with governing? The ability to think on your feet. You make a budget sitting on your tush.

The job at broadcast is to figure out what the dumbest person in the room is going to think. That's not the case at FX.

I'm always good at seeing five, ten steps ahead. Like, really thinking ahead, you know? Reverse engineering, whatever it is, you know.

The methodologies and best practices used to develop software can be applied successfully to any challenge in life.

I'm a pretty good problem solver.

If you ever have a question or a problem, if you approach Triple H, he might say the most-obvious thing, but it was the last thing you were thinking. As soon as he says it, you're thinking, 'Oh my, why didn't I think of that?' He's very smart, and we're very lucky to have him at our disposal in NXT.

When I interview someone, I want to find out about their life, get a sense of their personality, their passion. Maybe I'm hiring for a certain job, but even if your job is marketing, I'm going to ask you for your opinion on other things - taste this, what do you think of this bottle?

In business, you cannot be afraid to ask questions.

You've got to be smart about tackling.

I see myself as a problem solver, creating solutions.

Math people are math people. When you approach them with investments and business, they don't just ask the soft questions but eventually get to the hard questions.

People who are great at making decisions in the face of uncertainty have great judgment.

The process of philosophizing, to my mind, consists mainly in passing from those obvious, vague, ambiguous things, that we feel quite sure of, to something precise, clear, definite, which by reflection and analysis we find is involved in the vague thing that we start from, and is, so to speak, the real truth of which that vague thing is a sort of shadow.

A lot of people don't know what they want, you know, or they're just kind of vague about it.