07-09-2019, 12:45 PM
ROSS PEROT
Ross Perot's legendary list of lifetime achievements should start with "captured the imagination."
Brilliant in business, generous and demanding, driven, quirky and colorful, Perot was as hard to pigeonhole as a Texas tornado.
His death at age 89 leaves a broad legacy and some of the nation's enduring one-liners born of homespun wisdom. A best-selling book and televised miniseries dramatized his adventure to rescue employees being held in Iran — using his own hired commandos, no less. But no single volume or TV show could capture the man's full sweep.
The hostage rescue was emblematic of a boss who demanded the ultimate effort on the job, then reciprocated with the ultimate loyalty.
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/edito...ion-better
Ross Perot's legendary list of lifetime achievements should start with "captured the imagination."
Brilliant in business, generous and demanding, driven, quirky and colorful, Perot was as hard to pigeonhole as a Texas tornado.
His death at age 89 leaves a broad legacy and some of the nation's enduring one-liners born of homespun wisdom. A best-selling book and televised miniseries dramatized his adventure to rescue employees being held in Iran — using his own hired commandos, no less. But no single volume or TV show could capture the man's full sweep.
The hostage rescue was emblematic of a boss who demanded the ultimate effort on the job, then reciprocated with the ultimate loyalty.
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/edito...ion-better
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.