Ross Perot Quotes - Page 2

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.

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.

Modern politics has become little more than shirking responsibility and blaming somebody else.

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.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

This planet is our home. If we destroy the planet, we've destroyed our home, so it is fundamentally important.

Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

Japan is our rival, not our enemy. Japan is a competitor... Bashing a Toyota won't make a better car.

I was born rich. Not in tangible things... but rich in the parents I had.

My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.

It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.

I honestly believe I'd make one of the worst elected officials in the history of this country.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.

Revitalizing General Motors is like teaching an elephant to tap dance. You find the sensitive spot and start poking.

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.

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

I love this country, I love the principles on which it's founded.

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.

In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing'