Ross Perot quotes

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. (Ross Perot)
If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes. View quote
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Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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We have got to stop sending jobs overseas. It's pretty simple: If you're paying $12, $13, $14 an hour for factory workers and you can move your factory South of the border, pay a dollar an hour for labor,...have no health care-that's the most expensive single element in making a car- have no environmental controls, no pollution controls and no retirement, and you don't care about anything but making money, there will be a giant sucking sound going south...when [Mexico's] jobs come up from a dollar an hour to six dollars an hour, and ours go down to six dollars an hour, and then it's leveled again. But in the meantime, you've wrecked the country with these kinds of deals. View quote
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If I'm poor and you're rich, and I can get you to defend me that's good. But when the tables get turned, I would do my share. Right now we spend about 300$ Billion dollars a year on defense, Japanese spend around 30$ Billion in Asia, the Germans spend about 30$ Billion in Europe. For example, Germany will spend about a trillion dollars building infrastructure over the next 10 years. That's kinda easy to do if you don't have to pick up 30$ billion dollar tab to defend your country. The European community is in a position to pay a lot more then they have in the past.... Now that they can [pay], they should. View quote
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We've shipped millions of jobs overseas and we have a strange situation because we have a process in Washington where after you've served for a while you cash in and become a foreign lobbyist, make $30,000 a month; then take a leave, work on Presidential campaigns, make sure you got good contacts, and then go back out. Now if you just want to get down to brass tacks, the first thing you ought to do is get all these folks who've got these one-way trade agreements that we've negotiated over the years and say, "Fellows, we'll take the same deal we gave you." And they'll gridlock right at that point because, for example, we've got international competitors who simply could not unload their cars off the ships if they had to comply -- you see, if it was a two-way street -- just couldn't do it. We have got to stop sending jobs overseas. View quote
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War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. View quote
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Inventories can be managed, but people must be led. View quote
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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)
Written reports stifle creativity. View quote
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Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry? View quote
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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial. View quote
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Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation. View quote
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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. View quote
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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article. View quote
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You don't have to be the biggest to beat the biggest. (Ross Perot)
Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes. View quote
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If someone is blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will? View quote
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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. View quote
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Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time. View quote
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