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Anna Wintour

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first: 2025-12-08
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“Any other sport I can think of? I think it was the influence of my dad, but it was also when I moved to the States and I was given the position, first of all as, God, what do they call me then? I think I was...”
2025-12-08 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 165. Anna Wintour: Culture, Influence, and the Power of Decisive Leadership · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“With you, but you're also very pleased to see and making fast decisions and owning your mistakes if you make them, but always moving forward.”
2025-12-08 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 165. Anna Wintour: Culture, Influence, and the Power of Decisive Leadership · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“His nickname was Chili Charlie, and I never saw that side of him. I adored my father, I thought he was an extraordinary man and someone that I so admired and looked up to and loved deeply. But when I went to visit him on what was then called Fleet Street, it was a very different figure. He was very much in command, very fast in his decision making. But you could see how much he just loved being there, Rory. You know, it was just so thrilling to him to be there in the center of this universe. And he also was incredibly brilliant about the people that he hired. And we were lucky enough to have many of them coming to our house at the weekends and just seeing not only were they colleagues, they were also friends. And I think I learned a lot from bringing in people that you admire and who aren't scared of standing up to you or disagree.”
2025-12-08 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 165. Anna Wintour: Culture, Influence, and the Power of Decisive Leadership · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That you were living what was happening in the world. And I think both for my brother, Patrick, who, Alistair, I know you know, and for myself, there was no question that that was a world that we wanted to follow in. But if you grow up in London, Rory, you're very, at that time, I mean, maybe it's a little different now, but you were very much defined about defined by where you went to school and your accent and who your parents were. And I was lucky enough to have an American mother and to be able to leave and go and work in the United States where nobody gives a damn where you come from.”
2025-12-08 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 165. Anna Wintour: Culture, Influence, and the Power of Decisive Leadership · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it's what I grew up with, and for some extraordinary reason at our household, way before the era of the cell phone, the phone at the house was next to my bed. So I have very, very clear memories of being woken up in the middle of the night and a very gruff voice saying, this is Lord Breverbrook for Charles. Where is he? So, you know, we were surrounded by politicians and by writers, people that were cultural figures of the day. And it was just so thrilling to feel like you were living in what, I guess we would describe today as a global newsroom. I mean, I remember very clearly being in Venice on vacation as a family and my father getting so incredibly upset because tragically Marilyn Monroe had just killed herself and he thought that the paper had done the most appalling job on reporting that story. So there was always a sense”
2025-12-08 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 165. Anna Wintour: Culture, Influence, and the Power of Decisive Leadership · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“For the few people that I was lucky enough to talk to about my American grandfather, he was an expert on trusts. And they said it was Dick Goodwin, actually. I remember him telling me, yes, we would sit spellbound in the class, not being able to understand a single word that he said. But for some reason, he achieved great renown and he was also, I think, broke records at Harvard in running.”
2025-12-08 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 165. Anna Wintour: Culture, Influence, and the Power of Decisive Leadership · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You, Alistair. Thank you, Alistair. It was actually quite the opposite of what we're doing today, going back to my old school North London Collegiate. And I hadn't been since I left. I think it was a bit younger than 16. But it was incredible to see the change because when I went there, it was sort of Dickensian conditions where I remember thinking of every possible excuse not to go swimming outdoors in a freezing pool and sitting endlessly on the tube to Stanmore. They now have a credibly diverse student body about 700 girls, perfectly dressed in incredibly chic track suits and they had a cappuccino bar, which was very welcome as it was quite early in the morning.”
2025-12-08 · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 165. Anna Wintour: Culture, Influence, and the Power of Decisive Leadership · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source