„[Thatcher] began by asking what benefits ordinary people had received after 3½ years of Socialism. The Government should do what any good housewife would do if money was short—look at their accounts and see what was wrong.“

— Margaret Thatcher

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„Once a year ask the boss, "What do I or my people do that helps you to do your job?" and "What do I or my people do that hampers you?"“
— Peter F. Drucker
„Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.“
— Bill Gates
„Most emphatically I do wish that the people should have the right to recall the decision, and authoritatively to stamp with disapproval what cannot but seem to the ordinary plain citizen a monstrous misconstruction of the constitution, a monstrous perversion of the constitution into an instrument for the perpetuation of social and industrial wrong and for the oppression of the weak and helpless.“
— Theodore Roosevelt
„After all, why should ordinary people want to contemplate the End, especially when we see the condition of those who do?“
— Emil M. Cioran
„What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. In so far as they fail, they receive the money; in so far as they succeed, even to a moderate extent, the money is taken away.“
— Thomas Sowell