Charles Gati Quotes

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.

Good leadership is to know when to go, and you only succeed as a good leader if you've transported someone else in and the company gets stronger. Then you've succeeded as leader.

Leadership matters most, and optimism and unity comes from the leader.

Survival is not the only goal of a great leader.

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

To be a leader is to be awake and dissatisfied at all times. Leadership is action. Leadership is influence

A good leader doesn't get stuck behind a desk.

The role of a leader is to create a reality and not to be influenced by polls.

Successful leaders surround themselves with intelligent people.

Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.

Being a manager is about getting into the minds of the people you represent.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

Great leadership can be a difficult thing to pin down and understand. You know a great leader when you're working for one, but even they can have a hard time articulating what it is that makes their leadership so effective.

There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.

Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.

To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.

It's through a leader's actions - what he or she does and says on a daily basis - that the essence of great leadership becomes apparent.

We lead by influence. That is what good leadership is about.

Leadership requires a blend of strategy, persuasion, inspiration and motivation. It is based on respect more than fear.

As a leader, you have to have a vision that inspires people around you.

You have to lead by example. You have to be the calmest person in the room. You have to be very open. I think the qualities of a director are to enable and to find the best in everybody.

As a business owner, leadership is more than just telling others what to do. Leadership is about the investment we make into others and the responsibilities we accept for being the voice and direction that others count on.

Leadership is more than just managing economic reforms. Leadership means giving broad direction, take up challenges which other people cannot do.