Leadership Quotes by Margaret Thatcher

Consensus is the negation of leadership.

— Margaret Thatcher

You can't lead from the crowd.

— Margaret Thatcher

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

— Margaret Thatcher

Consensus is the absence of leadership.

— Margaret Thatcher

Consensus negates leadership.

— Margaret Thatcher

In order to unscramble some eggs the leader gotta have some balls

— Margaret Thatcher

The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.

— Margaret Thatcher

If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.

— Margaret Thatcher

A leader is someone who knows what they want to achieve and can communicate that.

— Margaret Thatcher

Being a leader is like being a lady, if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.

— Margaret Thatcher

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

— Margaret Thatcher

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good…

— Margaret Thatcher

If you have a sense of purpose and a sense of direction, I believe people will follow you. Democracy isn't just about…

— Margaret Thatcher

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more…

— Margaret Thatcher

Leadership is about having principles. A leader must have a vision and principles that will endure for all time and must always…

— Margaret Thatcher

I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchill in the radio broadcasts to…

— Margaret Thatcher

Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to…

— Margaret Thatcher

To the extent that the West is to blame at all for the ills of the Third World it is to the…

— Margaret Thatcher

We must not fall into the trap of projecting our own morality onto the Soviet leaders. They do not share our aspirations,…

— Margaret Thatcher

“Thought Leadership “The Downing Street Years” Book by Margaret Thatcher “I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques . .…

— Margaret Thatcher

There are forces more powerful and pervasive than the apparatus of war. You may chain a man, but you cannot chain his…

— Margaret Thatcher