Margaret Thatcher

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

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.

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister you have to give yourself 100 percent.

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

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

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.

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

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

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

I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

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

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.