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Today's Quotes Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says "Go!" - a leader says "Let's go!" ~E.M. Kelly A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten." ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not. Leadership is action, not position. ~Donald H. McGannon You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself. ~Gene Mauch The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it. ~Elaine Agather You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. ~Albert Schweitzer Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. ~Robert Jarvik You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That's assault, not leadership. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. ~Thomas J. Watson If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson A leader is a dealer in hope. ~Napoleon Bonaparte Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders. ~Tom Peters One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you. ~Dennis A. Peer A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit. ~John C. Maxwell A leader is best When people barely know that he exists. ~Witter Bynner, The Way of Life According to Laotzu The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way. ~Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827 I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep. ~Charles Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand-Périgord A man is only a leader when a follower stands beside him. ~Mark Brouwer I suppose that leadership at one time meant muscle; but today it means getting along with people. ~Indira Gandhi Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present. ~Rudy Giuliani A leader leads by example not by Force. ~Sun Tzu A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader. ~Golda Meir The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. ~Theodore Roosevelt He led his regiment from behind - He found it less exciting. But when away his regiment ran, His place was at the fore, O. ~W.S. Gilbert Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow. ~Vince Lombardi We have great managers who haven't spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that haven't spent a day in surgical school? ~Henry Mintzberg Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. ~Author Unknown The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. ~Tony Blair Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that person is crazy. ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn" Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. ~Anne Bradstreet A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done. ~Ralph Nader Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. ~Charles Simic Management is nothing more than motivating other people. ~Lee Iacocca There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them. ~Alexandre Ledru-Rollin I am not a labor leader. I don't want you to follow me or anyone else. If you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of the capitalist wilderness you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into this promised land if I could, because if I could lead you in, someone else could lead you out. ~Eugene V. Debs To lead the people, walk behind them. ~Lao-Tzu Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. ~Eric Hoffer A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten." ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not. ~Author Unknown Leadership is action, not position. ~Donald H. McGannon You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself. ~Gene Mauch The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it. ~Elaine Agather You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. ~Albert Schweitzer Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. ~Robert Jarvik You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That's assault, not leadership. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. ~Thomas J. Watson If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson A leader is a dealer in hope. ~Napoleon Bonaparte, attributed Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders. ~Tom Peters One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you. ~Dennis A. Peer A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit. ~John C. Maxwell A leader is best When people barely know that he exists. ~Witter Bynner, The Way of Life According to Laotzu The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way. ~Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827 I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep. ~Charles Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand-Périgord A man is only a leader when a follower stands beside him. ~Mark Brouwer I suppose that leadership at one time meant muscle; but today it means getting along with people. ~Indira Gandhi Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present. ~Rudy Giuliani A leader leads by example not by Force. ~Sun Tzu A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader. ~Golda Meir The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. ~Theodore Roosevelt He led his regiment from behind - He found it less exciting. But when away his regiment ran, His place was at the fore, O. ~W.S. Gilbert Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow. ~Vince Lombardi We have great managers who haven't spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that haven't spent a day in surgical school? ~Henry Mintzberg Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. ~Author Unknown The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. 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If you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of the capitalist wilderness you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into this promised land if I could, because if I could lead you in, someone else could lead you out. ~Eugene V. Debs To lead the people, walk behind them. ~Lao-Tzu Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. ~Eric Hoffer Finance Attain the Financial Freedom 102 Finance Tips RBI Finance Education Basic Fundamentals Advanced Finance Read More... Communication Communicate Effectievly 10 Tips for better communication Body Language Online Dictionary Speaking Skills Art Of Asking Everyone is a Sales Person Executive Presence Voice Power Read More... Business Get the Top Tips for Effective business launch. 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Today's Thought- The Satellite Guy Monday, December 29, 2008 Charlie Ergen made his first run on the satellite-television market in the '80s, and he did it by truck. Ergen, with his future wife Candy and a poker buddy, Jim DeFranco, drove one of their two satellite dishes to Colorado, hoping his fledgling service would score big in a land of tall mountains and bad TV reception. A stiff wind blew their trailer into a ditch, ruining the dish and leaving them with only one. As it turned out, one dish was enough. Ergen used it to build EchoStar, now the nation's second largest satellite-TV company. Ergen isn't hauling dishes anymore, but he is still the scrappiest guy in satellite TV. Last week he made a $32 billion all-stock bid for DirecTV, the largest satellite company in the U.S. The offer puts Ergen in an uphill battle against Australian-born media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who was on the brink of clinching his own deal for DirecTV. If Ergen outmaneuvers Murdoch in the battle that's likely to unfold in the next few weeks, he will control most of the nation's satellite sets. If he loses, the move--like a well-executed bluff--may still work to his advantage. DirecTV--owned by General Motors' Hughes Electronics Corp.--would be the missing piece of the planetary puzzle for Murdoch's News Corp. Its Sky Global Networks has 85 million subscribers spread across Europe, Asia and Latin America. DirecTV would deliver the U.S. in a bold way. The addition of DirecTV's 10 million households would make Murdoch No. 1 in satellite TV in the U.S., and No. 3 in pay TV, behind only AT&T's cable operations, with more than 14 million cable subscribers, and AOL Time Warner, with almost 13 million. (AOL Time Warner is the parent of TIME.) DirecTV has been an elusive prize for Murdoch. Hughes chairman Michael Smith long spurned his advances, an impediment that disappeared in May when Smith did: he was recently replaced by Harry Pearce, a top GM executive seen as sympathetic to Murdoch's bid. Just when the deal seemed imminent, though, Ergen made his play. Murdoch has several factors in his favor, beyond possibly friendly management at Hughes. With two deep-pocketed backers behind him, Microsoft and Liberty Cable's John Malone, Murdoch could hand over as much as $7 billion in cash. In mergers and acquisitions, cash is king. (Ergen has said he would consider adding some cash.) Most significant, there's considerable skepticism in the industry that antitrust regulators would let Ergen combine the nation's two largest satellite companies. But the wily Ergen, a Tennessee native and a onetime professional gambler, isn't giving up. His initial offer gave shareholders an 18% premium (that bonus decreased when EchoStar stock fell on the news), an amount that forced Hughes' management to take notice. And Ergen brushed aside antitrust concerns, arguing that the relevant market is not satellite TV but all of pay TV--including satellite and cable. EchoStar currently has 6 million subscribers (who pay between $21.99 and $69.99 a month in programming fees). If the deal were to go through, the new company's 16 million subscribers would be only slightly more than the customer base of No. 1 cable company AT&T. Even if Hughes' management would like Ergen to just go away, it has to proceed with caution. It is legally required to go with the highest bid, and at least four shareholder lawsuits have been filed charging that GM and Hughes failed to hold a fair auction. "Ergen's incredibly passionate about winning," says Jimmy Schaeffler, chairman of the Carmel Group, a media and technology research firm. "If people won't deal with him at the table one on one, they'll deal with him in front of their shareholders or in the courtroom." Ergen could win even if he loses. At the very least, his offer is likely to slow Murdoch's entry into the U.S. market, and it may force News Corp., already heavily indebted, to up its bid. There's still an outside chance Ergen could walk away with the big prize. The odds look long--but no longer than when he was down to his last satellite dish, fighting a blustery Colorado wind. WYD Team posted by Win Your Dreams @ 8:58 AM

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