Margaret Thatcher — "I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recip…"
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
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British Prime Minister (1979-1990) whose free-market reforms and confrontation with trade unions defined the late-20th-century right.
Closely associated with
Ronald Reagan (her closest international ally).
For an intellectual contrast, see
Tony Benn, Labour cabinet minister and democratic-socialist figurehead — Benn was the loudest parliamentary opposition to Thatcherism throughout the 1980s. His diaries and Thatcher's autobiography are the two opposing histories of the period — Britain's class politics is structured around which view was right.