And that's when he asked me - and he got strong and sort of gruff and he said, tell me, what are you doing?
Afterward Peter asked Shirley Fong, the 32-year-old general manager, to hop in the car for the drive back to Guangzhou, "I was very surprised when he asked me to drive with the group, " says Fong.
He asked me where I was going, and when I told him, he asked me if I had a place to stay.
And that sort of manifested itself on that first morning when he very kindly asked me if I'd like a drink of water and got me some water, and then just minutes later repeated that question, and then repeated it again and again over that first day we were together.
One of our investors said it best when I asked why he never called me when the market was down as most of our other investors did.
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"You're doing something important for the family, " he told me one day when I asked him if he thought it was strange that I hadn't met Neva's teacher.
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When I approached him, he asked me if I was, indeed, the person who had written it.
When I asked Lyons, he reminded me that they can't very well condemn it: Harvard Business School sells its uniquely valuable case studies to rival business schools.
"We love to invent, we love to pioneer, we even like going down blind alleys, " he told me when I asked what his company was about these days.
When I called him Monday, he asked me if I had my head over the wastebasket yet.
When I asked Wildern about his background, he told me that he worked at General Motors in corporate finance after completing his MBA from Harvard Business School.
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When I asked him how much progress he made, he took me through a list of management changes and restructuring initiatives.
When I asked Epstein how a company tends to find advocates, he told me that many of the customers already have an internal e-mail list.
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When I asked him what kind of storage system he would use he told me that he did not need to have a bunch of messy and expensive batteries because he is connected to the grid.
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He wanted me to let the residents struggle thirty seconds more when I asked them to help with a task.
He accused me of wasting his time and energy, then when I asked for a telephone number to contact his firm's PR department, he terminated the call.
When Carlos asked me for advice, I told him to do everything he could to extract himself from those projects that drew him away from his sweet spot.
When I asked him to take me to his favourite pad Thai spot, he suggested we meet at Hot Shoppe, conveniently located about 20 meters from his home in the Thonglor neighbourhood.
When she asked what to do about the gifts, at most he says "let me think about it" -- though Ms. Lewinsky has acknowledged on several occasions that he may have said nothing.
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Years ago, when I asked Norton Simon why he collected blue chip art and second rate companies he told me it was quite simple.
When I asked Fay what he believes the differences are between Stanford and Michigan, he told me that Stanford has a strong entrepreneurship community surrounding the school that are constantly reaching back.
When I asked my hotel concierge to show me Via Dante on a Palermo street map, he inquired why.
"I think that kind of question should be asked to me when President Obama is not standing right next to me, " he joked.
"I was 24, finishing business school, and some friends asked me if I could write an investment memorandum for Acne, " he recalls when asked to explain how a young guy whose previous work experience included starting a fireworks company and working as a high school psychology teacher rapidly rose to a major position.
"When I first went into real estate, a lot of people asked me if I was crazy, " he recalls.
Yes, Harrison won Friday's Prizefighter event and rightly told BBC Sport when asked about the quality of opponent that all he can do is "beat the men put in front of me".
"I am not going to be like this forever, life will be better for me in (the) future, " Shailendra says, though he's less clear when asked how he'll accomplish such change.
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