Ross Perot Quotes

Never ask anyone to do what you haven't done before and wouldn't do again. That's a pretty fundamental rule in leadership ... treat them like you treat yourself. Things you don't like, they don't like.

[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.

We must return immigration to a logical, orderly process where people fill out their applications and wait for approval. We must make sure illegal immigrants stop storming our borders. We must establiesh the correct criteria, such as our need for certain job skills or education, for granting the right to immigrate into the United States.

Generosity is something we learn, from our parents, schools and community.

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.

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

You make more making computer chips than potato chips.

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.

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

We have to succeed, so we will.

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

If we really want to know who is responsible for the mess we're in, all we have to do is look in the mirror. You and I own this country, and we are responsible for what happens to it.

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.

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

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

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.

The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her.

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.

Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.

Big is not beautiful. Big is inefficient.

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 ...

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.

If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.

Keep in mind our Constitution predates the Industrial Revolution. Our founders did not know about electricity, the train, telephones, radio, television, automobiles, airplanes, rockets, nuclear weapons, satellites, or space exploration. There's a lot they didn't know about. It would be interesting to see what kind of document they'd draft today. Just keeping it frozen in time won't hack it.

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

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

There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory.

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

Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

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

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.

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.