Margaret Thatcher Quotes about Leadership

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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.

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

Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

Margaret Thatcher

Leadership, Powerful, Following The Crowd

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

Margaret Thatcher

Leadership, Business, Women

Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.

Margaret Thatcher

Leadership, Way, Firsts

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

Leadership, Encouraging, Strong Women

"The feminist who didn't want to be called one" by Christine Todd Whitman, www.politico.com. December 9, 2013.

To me consensus seems to be - 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

Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

Margaret Thatcher's speech at 1981 Sir Robert Menzies lecture at Blackwood Hall of Monash University in Melbourne, www.margaretthatcher.org. October 6, 1981.

Consensus is the negation of leadership.

Margaret Thatcher

Leadership, Consensus, Negation

"Los Angeles Times Interview : Margaret Thatcher : The Lady's Not Made for Ducking a Tough Question". Los Angeles Times Interview, articles.latimes.com. November 28, 1993.

If you have a sense of purpose and a sense of direction, I believe people will follow you. Democracy isn't just about deducing what the people want. Democracy is leading the people as well.

Margaret Thatcher

Leadership, Women, Believe