Ross Perot Quotes (43 Quotes)

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.

Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?

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

This man is a dedicated husband, he is dedicated to his wife, he is dedicated to his daughters, ... I think he can be the father that can be a good role model for the people in this country.

And the truck convoy will get longer and longer, and as it approaches Washington it's going to be a big one. Again, we will have a dignified turning-in ceremony and a candlelight vigil in Washington to get the message over that we expect a whole lot more from our president than this man has given us, and that for the sake of our children and for the sake of our country and for the sake of the world, please resign now.

You'll see it. Sooner or later the American people will wake up. All they have heard is, 'Let's forgive, let's forgive. The Bible tells us to forgive.' It's the silliest stuff I have ever heard on television. That's why I have finally spoken out.

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

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

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

Once you pay the bills, money is the most overrated thing in the world

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.

As (White House aide) Chuck Colson has said several times, 'The man bears watching.'

I've had a number of friends in my life who've had drinking problems. Frankly, the ones that put the cork in the bottle and quit and have the guts to do it, I respect,

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

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.

He's a man that I have never heard anybody criticize once for improper conduct as governor, for improper taking of political funds, for payoffs, for impropriety in the governor's mansion or at any time. And that is a big state. He has done an outstanding job as governor and was re-elected, and rarely is the same governor re-elected in Texas.

That war damaged over 100,000 people -- they're damaged from chemical weapons, ... This administration for the last eight years has let those men rot.

ask him to make his medical records public.

We've been very lucky today, ... We've had a tremendous run-up in the stock ... (but) we're in it for the long haul.

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.

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

I think it's plain that the president should resign and spare the country the agony of impeachment and removal proceedings,

Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

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

If I had been in charge of this operation you can bet your bottom dollar that the President, at this very moment, would be shaking hands with freed prisoners. We wouldn't have hit just one camp, we would have hit several.

Should a person who's the most powerful person in the world conduct his personal life in such a way that would be a poor example to our children

Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.

This man will let this country rot, he will let the economy go into an international decline, he will devastate millions of people, and, if necessary, he'll start a little war just to get a bump in the polls,

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.

In this country, if you're eccentric and a billionaire you either kill a wrestler or run for president.

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation.

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

Either he's got mental troubles, or he does something like take drugs to spin him out from time to time.

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.

Should that person be allowed to lie publicly Let's promise ourselves we're never going to have a candidate like that,

As long as I am helpful to the organization, I am certainly happy to help and participate in any constructive way, ... The last thing I want is all of the things I see in the paper day in and day out about catfights and this and that and the other that have noting to do with fact but make great fiction.

Written reports stifle creativity.

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

You don't have to be the biggest to beat the biggest.

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.

These emergencies are just like a war, ... It's the fog of war there's massive confusion. This is where you have to keep your emotions in check, analyze what's coming by and make prudent moves.

Trevor's got 2,000 people trapped in a hospital in downtown New Orleans, ... We need to figure out how to help them and get those people out.