H. Ross Perot Quotes

1930-, American Businessman & Politician, Founder EDS
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“Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.”
Failure
“Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?”
Elections
“If someone is blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?”
Egotism
“It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.”
Progress
“The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.”
Action
“If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.”
Business
“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.”
Bureaucracy
“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.”
Politicians and Politics
“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.”
Perseverance
“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.”
Business