62 Motivational Quotes By Ross Perot That Will Help You Hit A Home Run
Ross Perot is an American former politician and business magnate. Renowned for his entrepreneurial success, Perot ran a non-partisan presidential campaign in 1992. In 1996, he ran a third party campaign and both campaigns have gone down in the United States history as one of the strongest presidential showings by an independent candidate or a third party. He earlier worked as a salesman for IBM, and founded his own company after leaving IBM. We have rounded some inspiring quotations and sayings by Ross Perot, which have been extracted from his speeches, campaigns, works, interviews, thoughts, and public utterances. Read through the thoughts and quotes by Ross Perot on leadership, failures, fundamentals, school, arrogance, teaching, pain, economy, etc. for your daily dose of inspiration.
Generosity is something we learn, from our parents, schools and community.
Business is a cobweb of human relationships
You don't have to be the biggest to beat the biggest.
Written reports stifle creativity.
Success is like Halley's comet, you know. Every now and then it just comes around.
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[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.
If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.
Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.
We have to succeed, so we will.
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.
Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?
Big is not beautiful. Big is inefficient.
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.
In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing'
Revitalizing General Motors is like teaching an elephant to tap dance. You find the sensitive spot and start poking.
Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.
Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.
If someone as blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?
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.
Japan is our rival, not our enemy. Japan is a competitor... Bashing a Toyota won't make a better car.
A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation.
I love this country, I love the principles on which it's founded.
I was born rich. Not in tangible things... but rich in the parents I had.
It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.
If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create an agency the size of NASA to build one.
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.
Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.
This planet is our home. If we destroy the planet, we've destroyed our home, so it is fundamentally important.
Modern politics has become little more than shirking responsibility and blaming somebody else.
My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.
