Ross Perot

Who is Ross Perot?

Henry Ross Perot is an American businessman best known for being an independent presidential candidate in 1992 and 1996. Perot founded Electronic Data Systems in 1962, sold the company to General Motors in 1984, and founded Perot Systems in 1988. Perot Systems was bought by Dell for $3.9 billion in 2009.

With an estimated net worth of about US$3.5 billion in 2012, he is ranked by Forbes as the 134th-richest person in the United States.

Famous Quotes:

• Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.
• 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.
• Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.
• Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?
• 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.
• 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 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.
• If someone is blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?
• 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.