Quotes About Leadership

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.

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

When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.

To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say, 'You turn if you want; the lady's not for turning.

Do you know, one of the greatest problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas? Now, thoughts and ideas, that interests me.

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

Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady.

If you want something spoken about, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

In general, more nonsense was written about the so-called 'feminine factor' during my time in office than about almost anything else. I was always asked how it felt to be a woman Prime Minister. I would reply: 'I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative.

In politics, if you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman

A week is a long time in politics

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

Give me six men and true, and I will get policies through.

Being Prime Minister is a lonely job. In a sense, it ought to be: you cannot lead from the crowd. But with Denis there I was never alone. What a man. What a husband. What a friend.

Politicians should resist the temptation to consider themselves experts in fields where they have no experience.

I don't think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime.

But they are not risks of our own making, and we cannot make the danger vanish by pretending that it does not exist. We must be prepared to meet that danger with sober self-restraint and calm and judicious action if we are to be successful in our leadership for peace.

Dad once defined leadership as the art of persuading people to do what they should have done in the first place. If they bullheadedly refuse to take this advice, there is not much the leader can do, in a free society.

George Elsey put it succinctly: "You can't sit around and wait for public opinion to tell you what to do. In the first place there isn't any public opinion. The public doesn't know anything about it; they haven't heard about it. The President must decide what he is going to do and do it, and attempt to educate the public to the reasons for his action.

Well all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

and what to do with Mr. Prima Donna, Brass Hat, Five Star MacArthur. He's worse than the Cabots and the Lodges - they at least talked with one another before they told God what to do. Mac tells God right off.

and someday, fat innkeepers will bow to me.

I have worked with women religious for more than twenty-five years. Shortly after the publication of Leadership and the New Science, a colleague gave me great advice. He said that if I was interested in organizations that worked from a strong sense of values, then I should be working with the military and nuns.