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
As long as I am helpful to the organization, I am certainly happy to help and participate in any constructive way, ... The last thing I want is all of the things I see in the paper day in and day out about catfights and this and that and the other that have noting to do with fact but make great fiction.
That war damaged over 100,000 people -- they're damaged from chemical weapons, ... This administration for the last eight years has let those men rot.
In this country, if you're eccentric and a billionaire you either kill a wrestler or run for president.
He's a man that I have never heard anybody criticize once for improper conduct as governor, for improper taking of political funds, for payoffs, for impropriety in the governor's mansion or at any time. And that is a big state. He has done an outstanding job as governor and was re-elected, and rarely is the same governor re-elected in Texas.
If I had been in charge of this operation you can bet your bottom dollar that the President, at this very moment, would be shaking hands with freed prisoners. We wouldn't have hit just one camp, we would have hit several.
I've had a number of friends in my life who've had drinking problems. Frankly, the ones that put the cork in the bottle and quit and have the guts to do it, I respect,
ask him to make his medical records public.
As (White House aide) Chuck Colson has said several times, 'The man bears watching.'
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.
Revitalizing General Motors is like teaching an elephant to tap dance. You find the sensitive spot and start poking.
We have to succeed, so we will.
Generosity is something we learn, from our parents, schools and community.
You don't have to be the biggest to beat the biggest.
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.