Ross Perot
Ross Perot
Henry Ross Perot, known as Ross Perot, is an American businessman best known for being an independent presidential candidate in 1992 and the Reform party presidential candidate in 1996. Perot founded Electronic Data Systemsin 1962, sold the company to General Motors in 1984, and founded Perot Systems in 1988...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth27 June 1930
CityTexarkana, TX
CountryUnited States of America
Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.
I came from an environment where if you see a snake, you kill it. At General motors, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is to hire a consultant on snakes.
This planet is our home. If we destroy the planet, we've destroyed our home, so it is fundamentally important.
Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.
Life is never more fun than when you're the underdog competing against the giants.
The most successful people in the world aren't usually the brightest. They are the ones who persevere.
Guys, just remember, if you get lucky, if you make a lot of money, if you get out and buy a lot of stuff--it's gonna break. You got your biggest, fanciest mansion in the world. It has air conditioning. It's got a pool. Just think of all the pumps that are going to go out. Or go to a yacht basin any place in the world. Nobody is smiling, and I'll tell you why. Something broke that morning. The generator's out; the microwave oven doesn't work . . . Things just don't mean happiness.
Never ask anyone to do what you haven't done before and wouldn't do again. That's a pretty fundamental rule in leadership... treat them like you treat yourself. Things you don't like, they don't like.
I honestly believe I'd make one of the worst elected officials in the history of this country.
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.
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.
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.
War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.
It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.