Margaret Thatcher Quotes About Leadership
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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.
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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"?
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I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
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The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.
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Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
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Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
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If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
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Consensus is the negation of 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.
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Margaret Thatcher
- Born: October 13, 1925
- Died: April 8, 2013
- Occupation: Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom