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Ross Perot Biography

Henry Ross Perot (/pəˈroʊ/; born June 27, 1930) is an American business magnate and former politician. As the founder of Electronic Data Systems, he became a billionaire. He ran an independent presidential campaign in 1992 and a third party campaign in 1996, establishing the Reform Party in the latter election. Both campaigns were among the strongest presidential showings by a third party or independent candidate in U.S. history.

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If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.

Business, Committee, Kill, Leadership, Snakes

Life is never more fun than when you're the underdog competing against the giants.

Fun, Inspirational, Life, Underdog

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.

Voice, Democracy, Usual, Politics, Peoples, Heard

My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.

Irritates, Oysters, Pearl, Pearls, Roles, Sand

Success is like Halley's comet, you know. Every now and then it just comes around.

Comet, Funny, Know, Like, Now And Then, Success

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.

Mean, Morning, Smiling, Things, Thinking, Work

Generosity is something we learn, from our parents, schools and community.

Community, Generosity, Parents, School, Schools

There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory.

Except, Know, Public, School, Teacher, Teaching

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.

Business, Customers, Engineering, Leadership, Products, Providing

The one thing I know through experience. . . is that people don't know why they come to work until they don't have to come to work.

People, Knows, One Thing, Experience, Work

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Business, Creating, Levels, Decide, Take, Plucking

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

Article, Brain, Cut, Cutting, Economy, Produce

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.

Country, Sacrifice, Journey, Stand, Trip

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.

Dream, Peoples, Simple, Three, Words

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.

Contemplation, Living, Men, Two, Worth, Writing

Revitalizing General Motors is like teaching an elephant to tap dance. You find the sensitive spot and start poking.

Change, Elephants, Revitalizing, Start, Teaching

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.

Men, Money, People, Richest, Want

In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing'

Economy, Right, Right Thing, Texas, Thing

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.

Failure, Knees, Like, Pain, Painful, Skinned

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.

Firsts, Kills, Snakes, Thing, Years

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