Answer Quotes
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When I was made CEO of Reynolds the first time, someone asked me what it was like to be a female CEO. But I said, 'I don't know what its like to be a male CEO, so I can't really answer that question.'
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Why do people think being with someone is the answer to everything?
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Selling is nothing more than asking questions and waiting for an answer.
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I'm rarely in a position where I can actually answer my phone without being rude to someone else. Sometimes I look back and realize it's been weeks since I've actually been alone. With texting, I can at least get a sense of what's going on without interrupting what I'm doing.
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Never ask a question if you can’t handle the answer.
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Why do you want to become an author? I will accept only one answer. If it is because you feel you can write better than you can do anything else then go ahead and do it without frills and flourishes. Stick to your present job and write in your spare time: but do it as if it is a whole time job.
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There was no short answer to this; like so much else, it was a long story. But what really makes any story real is knowing someone will hear it. And understand.
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Over time he learned that the way to have a leg up on everyone else was to anticipate something before it happened and then have the answer to it.
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What are we asking for? For the ability to answer three simple questions: ‘what to change?’, ‘what to change to?’, and ‘how to cause the change?’ Basically what we are asking for is the most fundamental abilities one would expect from a manager. Think about it. If a manager doesn’t know how to answer those three questions, is he or she entitled to be called manager?
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If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.
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Can there be enough books to answer all your questions?
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Sometimes people don't answer because they didn't hear you, Other times it's because they don't want to hear you!
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The best answer to the question, 'What is the most effective method of teaching?' is that it depends on the goal, the student, the content, and the teacher. But the next best answer is, 'Students teaching other students.'
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There is no simple answer to what I think.
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Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.
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She felt as she often did in class when she was nearly sure she had the right answer, but could not always make herself raise her hand.
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The only useful answer to the question 'Who is smarter, a man or a woman?' is, which man and which woman?
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I have always said I will try to answer questions honestly. I don't want to change that about myself. I think people appreciate that about me..
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We've done price elasticity studies, and the answer is always that we should raise prices. We don't do that, because we believe -- and we have to take this as an article of faith -- that by keeping our prices very, very low, we earn trust with customers over time, and that that actually does maximize free cash flow over the long term.
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It's hard to give an answer to the question.
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Perhaps the importance that we must attach to the achievement of an artist or a group of artists may properly be measured by the answer to the following question: Have they so wrought that it will be impossible henceforth, for those who follow, ever again to act as if they had not existed?
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I'd say there are two kinds of theater: one you end with an answer, one you end with a question.
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It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.
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Sometimes an answer doesn't come in one go. Sometimes it has so many layers to it that it takes time for the person to tell you what they really mean.
