If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership – you are practicing followership.
The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you to work for it in the first place.
Business success isn’t just a selfish aim. Profits spread beyond those who make them and bring jobs and prosperity.
New technology is the true friend of full employment; the indispensable ally of progress; and the surest guarantee of prosperity.
If you go into what I call a bubble boom, every bubble bursts.
The battle for women’s rights has largely been won. The days when they were demanded and discussed in strident tones should be gone forever. I hate those strident tones we hear from some Women’s Libbers.
The lesson is clear. Inflation devalues us all.
Please don’t use the word tough. People might get the impression that I don’t care. And I do care, very deeply. Resilient, I think.
You will only succeed if you know that what you are doing is right and you know how to bring out the best in people.
Never flinch. Make up your own mind and do it.
There are too few rich and too few profits.
We need a free economy not only for the renewed material prosperity it will bring, but because it is indispensable to individual freedom, human dignity and to a more just, more honest society.
Making change tolerable is one of the duties of Government.
Freedom under the law must never be taken for granted.
In my view dictators do not surrender. They have to be well and truly defeated.
I have never knowingly made a non-controversial speech in my life.
A leader is someone who knows what they want to achieve and can communicate that.
One of my favourite quotations is: ‘That which thy father bequeathed thee, earn it anew, if thou wouldst possess it.’
I went to Oxford University – but I’ve never let that hold me back.
When hecklers stand up, I get a mental jump for joy. It gives me something to get my teeth into – and the audiences love it.