Ross Perot

"Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers."

"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."

"The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river."

"War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules."

"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."