Wooden's Wisdom - Volume 12 | Issue 596 |
Craig Impelman Speaking | Championship Coaches | Champion's Leadership Library Login | |
"IF YOU HAVE TO TELL PEOPLE HOW HARD YOU WORK, YOU’RE PROBABLY NOT WORKING HARD." (MARGARET THATCHER) Margaret Thatcher was a British politician and stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990. She was the first female British prime minister and the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century.
Thatcher grew up a middle-class grocer’s daughter in Grantham, England. She said: "I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents."
After college, she went to work for a plastics company. In 1950, the twenty-five-year-old chemist ran for a parliamentary seat. Margaret proceeded to lose three consecutive elections; she was undeterred.
As she raised her young children, Thatcher earned a law degree. In 1959 she overcame voter reluctance to elect a woman and finally won her seat in Parliament. After working her way up, the ladder, in1975 Margaret Thatcher was elected the first female leader in the Conservative Party’s 141-year history. Thatcher became prime minister on May 4, 1979.
As a politician, she was loved and despised but always known for hard work and integrity. She did not bluster about herself. She said: "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t."
Margaret Thatcher’s ideas are still relevant today:
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Never worry about anyone who attacks you personally; it means their arguments carry no weight and they know it.
It pays to know the enemy — not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.
You don’t win by just being against things, you only win by being for things and making your message perfectly clear."
What are you for?
Yours in Coaching, Craig Impelman
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Too Big A Price They say my boy is bad,' she said to me, Edgar Albert Guest (1881-1959)
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