Ross Perot Quotes

• You don’t have to be the biggest to beat the biggest.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Biggest

• If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of N.A.S.A. to make one.

  Ross Perot

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Something, Thing, Create, Airplane

• Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Want, Daughter

• Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they’re going to make mistakes.

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  Topics in Mistake

  Tags in Want, People, Earth, Honest, Creativity

• Written reports stifle creativity.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Report, Creativity

• If you can’t stand a little sacrifice and you can’t stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we’re never going to straighten this country out.

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  Topics in Country, Sacrifice

  Tags in Stand, Trip, Little

• If you see a snake, just kill it – don’t appoint a committee on snakes.

  Ross Perot

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Just, Kill

• Most new jobs won’t come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We’ve got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.

  Ross Perot

  Topics in Dream, Job

  Tags in Everything, Make, Reality

• Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

  Ross Perot

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Products, Great, Relationships, Just

• Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

  Ross Perot

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Winning, People, Just

• The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

  Ross Perot

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in River, Man

• In plain Texas talk, it’s ‘do the right thing’

  Ross Perot

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Texas, Right, Thing

• If someone is blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Blessed, Will, Someone

• Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

  Ross Perot

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Produce, Anybody, Prices, Better, Brain

• A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation.

  Ross Perot

  Topics in Economy

  Tags in Nation, Weak

• Eagles don’t flock, you have to find them one at a time.

  Ross Perot

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Find, Flock

• The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled.

  Ross Perot

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Budget, Balance, Arrogance, Public

• Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You’d be amazed how many companies don’t listen to their customers.

  Ross Perot

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Spend, Customers, Time, Face

• Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.

  Ross Perot

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Organization, Like

• Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

  Ross Perot

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Painful, Like

Ross Perot (23)

Birth:	27th June, 1930
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman

About

Henry Ross Perot is an American businessman best known for running for President of the United States in 1992 and 1996. Perot founded Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in 1962, sold the company to General Motors in 1984, and founded Perot Systems in 1988. Perot Systems was bought by Dell for $3.9 billion in 2009.

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