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 THATCHERPoliticians should resist the temptation to consider themselves experts in fields where they have no experience.
More Margaret Thatcher Quotes
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Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
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If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at any time and would achieve nothing.
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Socialists are happy until they run out of other people’s money.
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Politicians should resist the temptation to consider themselves experts in fields where they have no experience.
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It used to be about trying to do something. Now it’s about trying to be someone.
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If you can’t afford it, you can’t have it.
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It’s a funny old world.
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Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.
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I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
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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.
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To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
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The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.
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It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
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And I will go on criticizing Socialism, and opposing Socialism because it is bad for Britain.
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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
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