Ross Perot famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Dirty #Men #Rivers
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.
-- Ross Perot

#Country #Responsibility #Mirrors
If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.
-- Ross Perot

#Leadership #Business #Snakes
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

#Motivational #Sports #Hate
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.
-- Ross Perot

#Business #Crazy #Aunt
In business, people are held accountable. In Washington, nobody is held accountable. In business, people are judged on results. In Washington, people are measured by their ability to get reelected.
-- Ross Perot

#People #Politician #Results
Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious.
-- Ross Perot

#Inspirational #Inspiring #Communication
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.
-- Ross Perot

#Jobs #Skills #People
War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.
-- Ross Perot

#War #Wrestling #Mud
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

#Motivational #Strength #Success
Guys, just remember, if you get lucky, if you make a lot of money, if you get out and buy a lot of stuff--it's gonna break. You got your biggest, fanciest mansion in the world. It has air conditioning. It's got a pool. Just think of all the pumps that are going to go out. Or go to a yacht basin any place in the world. Nobody is smiling, and I'll tell you why. Something broke that morning. The generator's out; the microwave oven doesn't work . . . Things just don't mean happiness.
-- Ross Perot

#Morning #Mean #Thinking
Don't run your life by what's legal or illegal. Run your life based on what's right or wrong.
-- Ross Perot

#Life #Running #Illegal
It is the individual's ability to deal with the unexpected that characterizes the difference between success and failure.
-- Ross Perot

#Differences #Personality #Unexpected
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

#Leadership #Business #Engineering
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.
-- Ross Perot

#Airplane #Space #Interesting
My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.
-- Ross Perot

#Oysters #Pearls #Roles In Life
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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Success
Modern politics has become little more than shirking responsibility and blaming somebody else.
-- Ross Perot

#Responsibility #Littles #Blame
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.
-- Ross Perot

#Dream #Simple #Three
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.
-- Ross Perot

#Voice #Democracy #Usual

You may also like:

Al Gore
Former Vice President of the United States
Bob Dole
American Politician
Dan Quayle
Former Vice President of the United States
Donald Trump
Investor
Gary Johnson
Former Governor of New Mexico
George H. W. Bush
41st U.S. President
James Stockdale
Jesse Ventura
Politician
Jill Stein
Physician
John McCain
United States Senator
Michael Dukakis
Former Governor of Massachusetts
Newt Gingrich
Former U.S. Representative
Oliver North
Host
Pat Buchanan
Former Assistant to the President for Communications
Phil Hartman
Actor
Ralph Nader
Activist
Richard Lamm
Former Governor of Colorado
Steve Forbes
Publisher
Walter F. Mondale
Former Vice President of the United States
William J. Clinton
42nd U.S. President