Ross Perot Quotes

I don't have to be enemies with someone to be competitors with them.

Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.

They might be a good friend, but they are also a bitter commercial rival. Let's not kid ourselves.. The American wheat industry has done everything it possibly can to criticize the Australian wheat industry in order to take the Iraqi wheat market from us.

Clearly, the Chinese need the resources, but I don't think they want to clash with the industrial world which happens to be the market for their goods.

The Japanese sit up all night thinking of ways to screw the Americans and the Europeans.

In the economic competition, in the technological competition, we are competitors; we are not allies.

As capitalists are in one another’s hair at home, they are at one another’s throats internationally.

While the Japanese are shipping us Toyotas, they’re exporting something more important than cars. They’re sending us unemployment.

We're competitors.

Businesses always have competitors nipping at their heels. Historically, cities have not viewed themselves as subject to that same type of competition. But that's wrong.

There's always competitors out there, one way or another.

We have a long history with Japan. When South Korea play against Japan, the fans tell us that if we lose, they are going to throw the players into the sea.

The Chinese are not stupid people. They're very smart people. They told me very, very distinctly that they cannot believe how stupid our representatives are in the United States. They cannot believe that they can continue to take all our jobs - you know, through the manipulation of the currency, of their currency, they make it almost impossible for our great companies to compete.

Honestly, we’ll compete with everybody. I love competition. As long as people invent their own stuff, I love competition.

If you look at China - and frankly, Vietnam now is doing a big number, and you look at Japan and India and Mexico - Mexico's killing us at the border and they're killing us with trade.

One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition.

Commerce is a form of warfare.

China should bury head to work diligently for 10 years and then raise head to face Japan.

We find the instinct to shut out competition deep-rooted even among banks and corporations, among corner grocers and haberdasheries, among peanut vendors and shoeshine boys-and even among young ladies in search of a husband.

I love innovation, I love competing. I hate my competitors. You cannot be in the world of business when you don't have this consciousness of winning.

The Russians could have some (warheads) aimed at Japan, so if we act up they can destroy our economy.

I never single out any one competitor. I treat all my rivals equally.

She already has a car.” “A Ford. That’s like Toyota’s worst enemy.

Israel also deprived the world of its chance of shedding tears of genuine sympathy over her destruction. The world resents this; it likes to feel noble and sympathetic.

Of course, we will work towards that end. Of course, we will work to achieve this result. However, you have just mentioned the 1956 agreement, and one may recall that these negotiations were later terminated, in effect, on Japan's initiative.