Ross Perot Quotes

When you have any kind of success in life, that's like the most dangerous moment that you're in because you're going to tend to think wow, I can just keep repeating what I've done. I'm a great person. People love me. All of the sudden they're giving me all of this attention. You get drunk on it and you lose your sense of balance and your sense of detachment. I know it's happened to me.

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.

Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.

Success can set the table for tragedy if the victors are not careful.

Great good fortune coming suddenly and unexpectedly tends to make a people insolent

I was an arrogant man. I not only thought I could manage my life without help, I wanted it that way. I had best-selling books and a TV show and movie contracts; I felt invincible, secure in the thought that everything was my doing. And then, like all arrogant men, I came to stumble.

I was unbeatable - until I wasn't.

Of course, success takes you where your character can't sustain you.

Wanting to win isn't enough. You have to go through a process to improve. That takes patience, perseverance, and intentionality.

Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor.

If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck.

You're all right, as long as you don't believe your own hype.

Success tempts many to their ruin.

People get successful and they start saying, 'Well of course I am! I was chosen! I'm special!' No, you're not.

We've seen a lot of people self-destruct because of a small taste of success.

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

When you were riding on the crest of a wave, youwere most likely to be missing out on something.

I believe that people start to get into trouble when they start to believe their own hype.

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

I think it's dangerous to think that you're successful, because then you become complacent.

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something.

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.