A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation.
– Ross Perot
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
Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.
– Ross Perot
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
Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.
– Ross Perot
Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.
– Ross Perot
If someone is blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?
– Ross Perot
If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.
– Ross Perot
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
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
If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.
– Ross Perot
Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.
– Ross Perot
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
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
Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.
– Ross Perot
Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.
– Ross Perot
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
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
– Ross Perot
Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?
– Ross Perot
Written reports stifle creativity.
– Ross Perot
You don't have to be the biggest to beat the biggest.
– Ross Perot
War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.