Henry Ross Perot is an American businessman best known for being an independent presidential candidate in 1992 and 1996.
He worked for IBM as a a salesman from 1957 to 1962, when he formed his own company, Electronic Data Systems.He turned EDS into a multi-billion dollar corporation, becoming one of America’s richest men.
He sold EDS to General Motors in 1984, and founded Perot Systems in 1988.
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.
you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.
You don’t have to be the biggest to beat the biggest.
Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You’d be amazed how many companies don’t listen to their customers.
Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious.
Eagles don’t flock, you have to find them one at a time.
War has rules, mud wrestling has rules – politics has no rules.
A weak currency is the sign of a weak economy, and a weak economy leads to a weak nation.
Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.
Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they’re going to make mistakes.
We have to succeed, so we will.
