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If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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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.
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When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator.
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It's a funny old world.
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When I look at him [Edward Heath] and he looks at me, I don't feel that it is a man looking at a woman. More like a woman being looked at by another woman.
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I'll stay until I'm tired of it. So long as Britain needs me, I shall never be tired of it.
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Leadership is about having principles. A leader must have a vision and principles that will endure for all time and must always be true to these principles, applying them to changing circumstances
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There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything. ... No great party can survive except on the basis of firm beliefs about what it wants to do.
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I will not stagger from expedient to expedient.
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A quick cure is a quack cure.
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All corporatism - even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea - encourages inflexibility, discourages individual accountability, and risks magnifying errors by concealing them.
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Hope is no basis for a defense policy.
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You can't lead from the crowd.
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If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.
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It's okay, Chancellor, you can touch them. Sometimes I just strip down to a tank top and stare at these guns in front of a mirror all day long.
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The government has no money of its own. It's all your money.
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Bribing regimes to comply with requirements which they should have acknowledged in the first place is not a process that appeals to me.
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I love his music because he was my generation. But then again, Elvis is everyone's generation, and he always will be.
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A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.
Margaret Thatcher
There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
Margaret Thatcher
I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.
Margaret Thatcher
