Quotes from 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.

A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation.

Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.

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

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.

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

You don't have to be the biggest to beat the biggest.

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.

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

[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.

Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious.

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.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

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.

Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

Life is never more fun than when you're the underdog competing against the giants.

Don't run your life by what's legal or illegal. Run your life based on what's right or wrong.

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

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.

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

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.

It is the individual's ability to deal with the unexpected that characterizes the difference between success and failure.

We have to succeed, so we will.

Success is like Halley's comet, you know. Every now and then it just comes around.