Quotes by Ross Perot

“you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.”

“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 wha...”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“The most frequently repeated statement by good, hard-working people since the Democratic and Republican conventions has been: How stupid do they think we are? … United teams win. Divided teams lose...”

“Few people in this country have been able to live the American Dream to the extent that I have … Neither political party has effectively addressed the issues that concern the American people.”

“If I'm poor and you're rich, and I can get you to defend me that's good. But when the tables get turned, I would do my share. Right now we spend about 300$ Billion dollars a year on defense, Japane...”

“We've shipped millions of jobs overseas and we have a strange situation because we have a process in Washington where after you've served for a while you cash in and become a foreign lobbyist, make...”

“We have got to stop sending jobs overseas. It's pretty simple: If you're paying $12, $13, $14 an hour for factory workers and you can move your factory South of the border, pay a dollar an hour for...”

“He’s like a throwback kind of character. He’s like an old American – there’s something about him that reminds you of the old America that I like very much.”