La La Anthony Quotes

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

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.

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

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

Children should be taught to question everything . . . everything they read and everything they hear.

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

An open-minded person running a business might catch a problem faster than a closed-minded person. And when they identify a problem, they can fix it much faster.

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.

Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

As an entrepreneur, you never stop learning.

You learn every single day when you're running a company. You learn as you go.

A president, like a college freshman, can't know in advance which questions he'll have to answer or what topics he'll have to master. He has to be flexible, supple, and responsive. He has to be comfortable with multiple-choice.

And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.

Effective management always means asking the right question.

Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.

The essence of good business is knowing when to step on a train and when to step off.

'How' is a great thing to know. 'Why' is the ultimate. I'm the 'why' coach. Why are we doing this? Why are we not doing that? Why is this not working? Those are the things I want to know.

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.

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.

My talent isn't so much in traditional research as in finding really smart people and badgering them with questions.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as deeply rooted a drive as seeking food or water.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.