Margaret Thatcher Quotes

When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine

~ Margaret Thatcher

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

~ Margaret Thatcher

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. ~ Margaret Thatcher

~ Margaret Thatcher

Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have a deep love of liberty and an abiding respect for the rule of law.

~ Margaret Thatcher

Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: ‘I stand for consensus?

~ Margaret Thatcher

I'm back... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'.

~ Margaret Thatcher

In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

~ Margaret Thatcher

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

~ Margaret Thatcher

Thought Leadership “The Downing Street Years” Book by Margaret Thatcher“I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques . . . noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism . . . and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuring years.”Margaret Thatcher AuthorFormer British Prime Minister#smitanairjain #leadership #womenintech #thoughtleaders #tedxspeaker #technology #tech #success #strategy #startuplife #startupbusiness #startup #mentor #leaders #itmanagement #itleaders #innovation #informationtechnology #influencers #Influencer #hightech #fintechinfluencer #fintech #entrepreneurship #entrepreneurs #economy #economics #development #businessintelligence #business

~ Margaret Thatcher

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

~ Margaret Thatcher

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

~ Margaret Thatcher

When people are free to choose, they choose freedom

~ Margaret Thatcher

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

~ Margaret Thatcher

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

~ Margaret Thatcher

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

~ Margaret Thatcher

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.

~ Margaret Thatcher

Some Socialists seem to believe that people should be numbers in a State computer. We believe they should be individuals. We are all unequal. No one, thank heavens, is like anyone else, however much the Socialists may pretend otherwise. We believe that everyone has the right to be unequal but to us every human being is equally important.

~ Margaret Thatcher

And I will go on criticising Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain (...) It’s the Labour Government that have brought us record peace-time taxation. They’ve got the usual Socialist disease – they’ve run out of other people’s money.

~ Margaret Thatcher

The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.

~ Margaret Thatcher

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

~ Margaret Thatcher

I'm not hard I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

~ Margaret Thatcher

I will not change just to court popularity.

~ Margaret Thatcher

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

~ Margaret Thatcher

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing it's when you've had everything to do and you've done it.

~ Margaret Thatcher

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are you aren't.

~ Margaret Thatcher

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside where it functions best.

~ Margaret Thatcher

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

~ Margaret Thatcher

It's a funny old world.

~ Margaret Thatcher

If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

~ Margaret Thatcher

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

~ Margaret Thatcher

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

~ Margaret Thatcher

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

~ Margaret Thatcher

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

~ Margaret Thatcher

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

~ Margaret Thatcher

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

~ Margaret Thatcher

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

~ Margaret Thatcher

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

~ Margaret Thatcher

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

~ Margaret Thatcher

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

~ Margaret Thatcher

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

~ Margaret Thatcher