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Ross Perot
American
Businessman
About the author
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,
American
Businessman
#Relationships
#Business
#Deals
#Service
#Engineering
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.
Ross Perot,
American
Businessman
#Action
#Being
#Man
#Writing
#Living
#Worth
#Contemplation
A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation.
Ross Perot,
American
Businessman
#Nation
#Economy
Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.
Ross Perot,
American
Businessman
#Time
#Eagles
Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.
Ross Perot,
American
Businessman
#Want
#People
#Mistakes
#Earth
#Creativity
Written reports stifle creativity.
Ross Perot,
American
Businessman
#Creativity
Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?
Ross Perot,
American
Businessman
#Want
#Daughter
War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.
Ross Perot,
American
Businessman
#War
#Politics
#Rules
#Wrestling
You don't have to be the biggest to beat the biggest.
Ross Perot,
American
Businessman
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.
Ross Perot,
American
Businessman
#Public
#Debt
#Arrogance
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,
American
Businessman
#People
#Success
#Winning
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.
Ross Perot,
American
Businessman
#Will
#Dreams
#Jobs
#Reality
Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.
Ross Perot,
American
Businessman
#Life
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
Ross Perot,
American
Businessman
#Man
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,
American
Businessman
#Time
#Talking
Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.
Ross Perot,
American
Businessman
Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.
Ross Perot,
American
Businessman
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,
American
Businessman
#Today
Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.
Ross Perot,
American
Businessman
#People
In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing'
Ross Perot,
American
Businessman
#Talk
#Right
If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.
Ross Perot,
American
Businessman
#Committee
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,
American
Businessman
#Sacrifice
#Country
#Water
If someone is blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?
Ross Perot,
American
Businessman
#Will