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.
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Ross Perot
Henry Ross Perot (/pəˈroʊ/; born June 27, 1930) is an American business magnate and former politician. In 1962, Perot founded Electronic Data Systems, a company he sold twenty years later for $2.4 billion. He went on to set up Perot Systems in 1988. An independent presidential candidate in 1992, he received 18.9% of the popular vote, the highest percentage for an independent or third-party candidate since 1912. In 1996, he was the Reform Party's presidential nominee and received 8.4% of the popular vote. 2Early life Perot was born in Texarkana, Texas, the son of Lula May Perot (née Ray) and Gabriel Ross Perot, a commodity broker specializing in cotton contracts. His patrilineal line traces back to an immigrant to Louisiana, in the 1740s. He attended a private school called Patty Hill. He graduated from Texas High School in Texarkana in 1947. One of Perot's boyhood friends was Hayes McClerkin, later Speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives and a prominent Texarkana, Arkansas, lawye
We have to succeed, so we will.
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.
I care about what you can do. I care about what you’ve done lately. Because this is a cross-country run, it’s not a 100 yard dash; one quick race is not a business career.
You don’t have to be the biggest to beat the biggest.”
Talk is cheap. Words are plentiful. Deeds are precious.
Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You’d be amazed how many companies don’t listen to their customers.
Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they’re going to make mistakes.
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.
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.
Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?
If someone is blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?
If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.
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.
Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.
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.
Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.
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.
It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.