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Ross Perot Quotes

Total quotes: 12
“Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?”
— Ross Perot
Tagged: candidates, Daughter, Marriage
“The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.”
— Ross Perot
Tagged: Activist, Activism, Initiative, Action, Work
“If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.”
— Ross Perot
Tagged: Business, Risk, Decisions, Work
“Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they’re going to make mistakes.”
— Ross Perot
Tagged: Mistakes, Creativity, Taking Risks, punishment
“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
Tagged: Customers, Customer Service, company, Communication
“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
Tagged: Business, Service, Customers, Products
“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
Tagged: Job, Employer, entrepreneur, Reality, Dreams
“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
Tagged: Sacrifice, Effort, Hard Work, Action
“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
Tagged: invention, Airplane, NASA, Spacecraft
“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, Most Inspirational Sports Quotes Of All Time
Tagged: Motivational Sport Quotes, Inspirational, Good Sportsmanship, Loss, Losing, Winning, champion, Success, Achievement, Quitting
“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
Tagged: Human Nature, accomplishment, Success, Discipline, Balance, Humility, Commitment
“Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.”
— Ross Perot
Tagged: Failure, Painful, Pain, Failure Is Success
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