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We're not hard people.

There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.

I don't think of myself as a hard man, but other people may think otherwise. You know you have obligations to do the best you can for people, for your job, for your shareholders... it all has to be balanced between the hardness and the softness.

Hard men present hard choices - none more so than Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia.

I can't stand people who try too hard.

Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.

A hard man is good to find.

I like difficult people because that means they're perfectionists and they're passionate.

I'm tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he's not a predator. He doesn't have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain't. I'm tough.

I love hard; I love who I love, and I don't make any qualms about it.