Quotes by Margaret Thatcher

The ladys not for turning.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are you arent.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isnt a very good plan you should wear it inside where it functions best.

It may be the cock that crows but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing knowing that is not enough that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time and suddenly all sorts of powers all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think Well Ill have a go too.

If its me against 48 I feel sorry for the 48.

Ive got a womans ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

The battle for womens rights has been largely won.

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

Its a funny old world.

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.

I love argument, I love debate. I dont expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, thats not their job.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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