Margaret Thatcher

The Iron Lady

Margaret Thatcher- "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people´s money."


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.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Margaret Thatcher

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Margaret Thatcher

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.

Margaret Thatcher

I fight on, I fight to win.

Margaret Thatcher

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

Margaret Thatcher

Successful entrepreneurship is ultimately a matter of flair. But there is also a fund of practical knowledge to be acquired and, of course, the right legal and financial framework has to be provided for productive enterprise to develop.

Margaret Thatcher

Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they really mean—power over people, power to the State.

Margaret Thatcher

My policies are based not on some economics theory, but on things I and millions like me were brought up with: an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay; live within your means; put by a nest egg for a rainy day; pay your bills on time; support the police.

Margaret Thatcher

The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people´s money.

Margaret Thatcher

Pennies don’t fall from heaven – they have to be earned here on earth.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Margaret Thatcher

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Margaret Thatcher

It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.

Margaret Thatcher

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

Margaret Thatcher

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

Margaret Thatcher

Oh, but you know, you do not achieve anything without trouble, ever.

Margaret Thatcher

Defeat—I do not recognise the meaning of the word!

Margaret Thatcher

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

Margaret Thatcher

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Margaret Thatcher

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Margaret Thatcher

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

Margaret Thatcher

Imagine a Labour canvasser talking on the doorstep to those East German families when they settle in on freedom’s side of the wall. “You want to keep more of the money you earn? I’m afraid that’s very selfish. We shall want to tax that away. You want to own shares in your firm? We can’t have that. The state has to own your firm. You want to choose where to send your children to school? That’s very divisive. You’ll send your child where we tell you.”

Margaret Thatcher

Popular capitalism is nothing less than a crusade to enfranchise the many in the economic life of the nation.

Margaret Thatcher