Quotes by Perot, H. Ross

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

Perot, H. Ross on egotism   

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

Perot, H. Ross on elections
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"Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial."

Perot, H. Ross on failure   

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

Perot, H. Ross on leadership   

"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."

Perot, H. Ross on perseverance   

"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."

Perot, H. Ross on politics   

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

Perot, H. Ross on progress   

"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."

Perot, H. Ross on bureaucracy   

"If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living."

Perot, H. Ross on business   

"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."

Perot, H. Ross on business   

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

Perot, H. Ross on action
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