“Effective management always means asking the right question.”

“Asking what the question is, and why the question is asked, is always asking a pertinent question.”

“The key question for top management is what are your assumptions (implicit as well as explicit) about the most effective way to manage people?”

“Maybe we've always asked the wrong question. We should ask ourselves about the meaning of death, rather than life. Are we not alive now?”

“for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.”

“A questioner asks: If human nature is evil, then where do ritual and rightness come from? I reply: ritual and rightness are always created by the conscious activity of the sages.”

“Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.”

“The answers are easy. Asking the right questions is hard.”

“When the physicist poses the question, "What does it mean to do physics?" or "What is research in physics?" — his question is a preliminary question. Clearly, when you ask a question like that, and try to answer it, you are not "doing physics." Or rather you are no longer doing physics. But when you ask yourself, "What does it mean to do philosophy?" then you actually are "doing philosophy" — this is not at all a "preliminary" question but a truly philosophical one: you are right at the heart of the business.”

“My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.”