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.
What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister you have to give yourself 100 percent.
It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.