Making New Friends

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And I hope you noticed that Iran launched a rocket into space - It is likely (like our friends - the Chinese) that they are considering using space debris to hamper the Global Positioning Ability that has become so important for our military.

Outright Heinous Behavior

If Henry Paulson's (former Secretary of the U.S. Treasury) hedge fund, on the heels of leaving office, shorted CDO's (the financial instruments of mass destruction) it should be viewed as:

1. One of the most unethical trades in the history of the United States.

2. Outright heinous behavior.

3. Fraud of the worst kind.

4. All of the above.

If you answered #4 then you are correct and it confirms that Goldman Sachs, Tim Geitner and Henry Paulson are the true axis of evil.

Leadership Must be for the Benefit of the Followers

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In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is King. – Desiderius Erasmus

We can’t all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. – Will Rogers

The office of President is such a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit. – Jimmy Breslin

The leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders. – Robert Townsend

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. – Anne Bradstreet

In America, anyone can become president. That’s one of the risks you take. – Adlai E. Stevenson

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move. – Benjamin Franklin

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Pick Battles Big Enough to Matter

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Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. – Jonathan Kozol

You shouldn’t take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up. – G.K. Chesterton

One should never wear one’s best trousers to go out and battle for freedom and truth. – Henrik Ibsen

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital. – Joe Paterno

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. – Henry David Thoreau

Managers are people who do things right, and leaders are people who do the right thing. – Warren G. Bennis

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it. – Henry Mintzberg

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Nothing More Exasperating than a Hose that just isn’t Long Enough

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Luck sometimes visits a fool, but never sits down with him. – German proverb

Expect the worst and you surprises will always be pleasant ones. – Louis E. Boone

If a man dies and leaves his estate in an uncertain condition, the lawyers become his heirs. – Ed Howe

To a gardener there is nothing more exasperating than a hose that just isn’t long enough. – Cecil Roberts

Plans are nothing; planning is everything. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. – Peter Drucker

Life is what happens to you while you are making other plans. – John Lennon

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