55 Quotes by H. Ross Perot

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

So many people spend their lives chasing money and end up as the richest men in the cemetery. I don’t want to be like that.

Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

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.

One voice is tiny, and alone it cannot be heard above the din of politics as usual. The peoples voice, when it cries as one, is a great roar.

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

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

The first EDSer to see a snake kills it. At GM, first thing you do is organize a committee on snakes. Then you bring in a consultant who knows a lot about snakes. Third thing you do is talk about it for a year.

Written reports stifle creativity.