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"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."

"I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation."

"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate."

"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."

"Talent can be a nice thing to have sometimes. You look good, attract attention, and if you're lucky, you make some money. Women flock to you. In that sense, having talent's preferable to having none. But talent only functions when it's supported by a tough, unyielding physical and mental focus. All it takes is one screw in your brain to come loose and fall off, or some connection in your body to break down, and your concentration vanishes, like the dew at dawn. If talent's the foundation you rely on, and yet it's so unreliable that you have no idea what's going to happen to it the next minute, what meaning does it have?"

"The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability."
Explore more quotes by Margaret Thatcher

"There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it."

"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction."

"If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you."

"I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it."

"I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph."

"It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend."
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