Top 86 Ross Perot Sayings
#1. I remember seeing Amy Sedaris in a stint where she played somebody's alcoholic mother in one scene and in the next she was Ross Perot. I remember thinking she was so awesome.
Stephnie Weir
#2. Ross Perot came and visited Apple several times and visited the Macintosh factory. Ross was a systems thinker.
John Sculley
#3. I believe that voices like Ross Perot (search), Pat Buchanan, Ralph Nader should be heard. They don't have to be president. Give 'em a chance.
Kinky Friedman
#4. If Ross Perot runs, that's good for us. If he doesn't run, it's good for us.
Dan Quayle
#5. You mentioned Ross Perot. Mr. Perot jumped into the race at the last minute, had one issue that he ran on, the budget deficit, was in and out of the race a couple of times, and still got 20 million votes, didn't have the Internet.
Hamilton Jordan
#6. The campaigns of Steve Forbes, Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, and John McCain all outperformed expectations on their support from independent voters. They made no effort to shy away from ideology, but conveyed to voters that their policies were driven by principle, not party talking points.
John Sununu
#7. You're a trivial part in a trivia game.
Now what's your aim? A presidential campaign?
Like Ross Perot? He lost it though ...
But he got a billion in tha bank fo' sho'!
Aceyalone
#8. ROSS PEROT was the best thing that happened in American politics since Richard Nixon acquired a taste for gin. In both cases, the political dialogue of the day was enriched by spontaneous gibberish that entertained the wrong people and made the right ones question their faith.
Hunter S. Thompson
#9. Ross Perot. I could have had a ball with him.
Rich Little
#10. I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.
James Stockdale
#11. You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
Pat Paulsen
#12. Ralph Reed is deeply ambitious and always was so. There was a time when he ... in one of my interviews, he said he pondered running the Ross Perot campaign, and he wasn't sure he wanted to do the Christian Right thing; he was worried that it boxed him into a corner.
Nina Easton
#13. Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the Larry King Show to becoming a candidate for president, to get on all 50 ballots.
James Stockdale
#14. For our teams that do great work, we have a tradition of giving Rolex watches. If you see all the key guys with their Rolexes, that's sort of our Medal of Honor if you do something big.
Ross Perot Jr.
#15. Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.
Ross Perot
#16. You really need to be on top of what you own, and you've got to be on top of your record-keeping. Imagine one day if a major bank is taken down and the records are gone.
Ross Perot Jr.
#17. Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.
Ross Perot
#18. Never ask anyone to do what you haven't done before and wouldn't do again. That's a pretty fundamental rule in leadership ... treat them like you treat yourself. Things you don't like, they don't like.
Ross Perot
#19. I like basketball, but please don't ask me basketball questions because I've got a lot to learn.
Ross Perot Jr.
#20. It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.
Ross Perot
#21. If someone as blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?
Ross Perot
#22. There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory.
Ross Perot
#23. Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.
Ross Perot
#24. I never really thought I'd have the opportunity to run this business. It's an industry I grew up in. I watched EDS being formed in our living room at night.
Ross Perot Jr.
#25. The only hard-and-fast rules a Perot must operate under are getting a sound education; being honest and ethical in our business dealings; treating the people who work for us with respect and dignity; and, finally, a Perot cannot be afraid to take risks when appropriate.
Ross Perot Jr.
#26. So many people spend their lives chasing money and end up as the richest men in the cemetery. I don't want to be like that.
Ross Perot
#27. Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.
Ross Perot
#28. If we can't have a great team and a winning team, then I will not be an N.B.A. owner very long.
Ross Perot Jr.
#29. Revitalizing General Motors is like teaching an elephant to tap dance. You find the sensitive spot and start poking.
Ross Perot
#30. Life is never more fun than when you're the underdog competing against the giants.
Ross Perot
#31. [In Moscow] we got through to [Soviet leaders] Brezhnev and Kosygin on the telephone. I think it was because nobody had ever tried to call them at home before.
Ross Perot
#32. 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.
Ross Perot
#33. My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.
Ross Perot
#34. This planet is our home. If we destroy the planet, we've destroyed our home, so it is fundamentally important.
Ross Perot
#35. I used to collect computer punch cards from the data centers.
Ross Perot Jr.
#36. The American dream. Those three short, simple words encompass the hopes and aspirations of all the peoples on earth. The words are not only short and simple. They are also fragile.
Ross Perot
#37. I came from an environment where if you see a snake, you kill it. At General motors, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is to hire a consultant on snakes.
Ross Perot
#38. In business, people are held accountable. In Washington, nobody is held accountable. In business, people are judged on results. In Washington, people are measured by their ability to get reelected.
Ross Perot
#39. A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation.
Ross Perot
#40. Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?
Ross Perot
#41. It wasn't really part of the program in the Perot family. Rebellion was not an option.
Ross Perot Jr.
#42. In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing'
Ross Perot
#43. If we really want to know who is responsible for the mess we're in, all we have to do is look in the mirror. You and I own this country, and we are responsible for what happens to it.
Ross Perot
#44. Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
Ross Perot
#45. Every time there's a dip in the market, we buy. If you don't buy the land right, it ain't going to work.
Ross Perot Jr.
#46. I love this country, I love the principles on which it's founded.
Ross Perot
#47. A lot of people look at a basketball team as an anchor tenant for an arena. I look at an arena as the anchor tenant for a much larger program.
Ross Perot Jr.
#48. Dad endorsed my learning to fly so he would have a live-in pilot, one he could get in touch with at any time.
Ross Perot Jr.
#49. One voice is tiny, and alone it cannot be heard above the din of politics as usual. The peoples voice, when it cries as one, is a great roar.
Ross Perot
#50. Anything that is excellent or praiseworthy stands moment by moment on the cutting edge and must be constantly fought for. Well placed priorities always sit on the edge.
Ross Perot
#51. AllianceTexas is a cash machine for our public partners.
Ross Perot Jr.
#52. The best way to make money is not to have money as your primary goal. I've seen great people come into the business world primarily motivated to make money. Almost without exception they failed.
Ross Perot
#53. 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
#54. Half of this business is politics. As real estate developers, it's our job to go in there and get beat up.
Ross Perot Jr.
#55. While we share the same set of values, we can - and do - have different business interests. Dad has been there to give me career advice along the way, but he has always let me call the play.
Ross Perot Jr.
#56. I was born rich. Not in tangible things ... but rich in the parents I had.
Ross Perot
#57. If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.
Ross Perot
#58. Japan is our rival, not our enemy. Japan is a competitor ... Bashing a Toyota won't make a better car.
Ross Perot
#59. You don't have to be the biggest to beat the biggest.
Ross Perot
#60. 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
#61. You will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.
H. Ross Perot
#62. I honestly believe I'd make one of the worst elected officials in the history of this country.
Ross Perot
#63. Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.
Ross Perot
#64. I put it in the back of my mind that someday I would fly around the world.
Ross Perot Jr.
#65. The activist is not the person who says the river is dirty. The activist is the person who cleans up the river
H. Ross Perot
#66. What I like about land is I can drive out and check on it. It doesn't go anywhere. It's hard to steal land.
Ross Perot Jr.
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her.
Ross Perot
#70. War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.
Ross Perot
#71. The one thing I know through experience ... is that people don't know why they come to work until they don't have to come to work.
Ross Perot
#72. Generosity is something we learn, from our parents, schools and community.
Ross Perot
#73. The most successful people in the world aren't usually the brightest. They are the ones who persevere.
Ross Perot
#74. Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.
Ross Perot
#75. My father will always be my hero. He pioneered two successful companies that paved the way for the technology services industry and has devoted much of his life to helping people in need and those who serve our nation in the armed forces.
Ross Perot Jr.
#77. If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.
Ross Perot
#78. 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
#79. Big is not beautiful. Big is inefficient.
Ross Perot
#80. The real estate business was something Dad and I could do together.
Ross Perot Jr.
#81. When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose.
Ross Perot
#82. Success is like Halley's comet, you know. Every now and then it just comes around.
Ross Perot
#83. Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious.
Ross Perot
#84. Don't run your life by what's legal or illegal. Run your life based on what's right or wrong ...
Ross Perot
#85. I got to see the American Dream unfold in my living room.
Ross Perot Jr.
#86. The first EDSer to see a snake kills it. At GM, first thing you do is organize a committee on snakes. Then you bring in a consultant who knows a lot about snakes. Third thing you do is talk about it for a year.
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