Ross Perot
Businessman
1930-06-27
Quotes by Ross Perot
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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.
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If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.
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Written reports stifle creativity.
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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.
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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.
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Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.
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The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled.
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There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
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War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.
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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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The American dream. Those three short, simple words encompass the hopes and aspirations of all the peoples on earth. The words are not only short and simple. They are also fragile.
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The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her.
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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.
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Modern politics has become little more than shirking responsibility and blaming somebody else.
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In business, people are held accountable. In Washington, nobody is held accountable. In business, people are judged on results. In Washington, people are measured by their ability to get reelected.
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