Quotes from Ross Perot

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

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

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

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

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.

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.

Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

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.

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

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

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

Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

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

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.

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.

Written reports stifle creativity.

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.

So many people spend their lives chasing money and end up as the richest men in the cemetery. I don't want to be like that.

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

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

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

I came from an environment where if you see a snake, you kill it. At General motors, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is to hire a consultant on snakes.

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.