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"The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved."

"Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers."

"Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one."

"Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not."

"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation."

"Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason."
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"You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news."


"Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time."


"All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work."


"The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it's very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer."


"If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid."


"Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new."


"If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work."


"Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops."
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