Positive Leadership: Greatness
Tuesday, April 09, 2013
Positive Leadership: Baroness Thatcher, a Great British Leader
Speaking about the late Baroness Thatcher yesterday, David
Cameron, the British Prime Minister, said: “We've lost a great prime minister,
a great leader, a great Briton. She didn't just lead our country, she saved our
country, and I believe she'll go down as the greatest British peacetime prime
minister.”
Here are a few favourite ‘Thatcherisms’:
“Consensus: “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?”
“Watch your thoughts for they become words.
Watch your words for they become actions.
Watch your actions for they become habits.
Watch your habits for they become your character.
And watch your character for it becomes your destiny.
What we think, we become.
My father always said that... and I think I am fine.”
“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had
everything to do and you've done it.”
“Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.”
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