Eagles don’t flock—you have to find them one at a time.
—Ross Perot
Topics: Leadership, Leaders
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.
—Ross Perot
Topics: Teaching
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.
—Ross Perot
Topics: Discipline, Humility, Commitment, Balance, Success
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.
—Ross Perot
Topics: Politicians, Politics
Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?
—Ross Perot
Topics: Elections, Voting
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
Topics: Engineering, Business
If someone is blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?
—Ross Perot
Topics: Ego, Egotism
It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.
—Ross Perot
Topics: Progress
If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we’ll all be plucking chickens for a living.
—Ross Perot
Topics: Business
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
—Ross Perot
Topics: Action
Failures are like skinned knees—painful, but superficial.
—Ross Perot
Topics: Failure
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.
—Ross Perot
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.
—Ross Perot
Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You’d be amazed how many companies don’t listen to their customers.
—Ross Perot
Topics: Customers
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.
—Ross Perot
Topics: Bureaucracy
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