Success Quote by Ross Perot

“Eagles don’t flock” is a businessman’s jab at the fantasy that excellence comes in bulk. Perot frames high performers as solitary predators, not herd animals, which immediately flatters the kind of listener who wants to see themselves as rare, self-propelled, and slightly misunderstood. It’s a recruiting line disguised as a proverb: if you’re building something serious, stop waiting for a ready-made “dream team” to appear en masse. Go hunt.

The subtext is classic Perot-era corporate mythology: talent is scarce, obvious when spotted, and worth the trouble. That worldview pairs neatly with his broader public persona as the plainspoken outsider who distrusted bloated institutions. Whether he was talking about companies or the country, Perot liked the idea that systems drift toward mediocrity unless driven by unusually capable individuals. “One at a time” is the managerial reality check. Great people don’t arrive as a package deal; they have to be identified, persuaded, and often protected from the inertia of the organization you’re trying to improve.

The line also smuggles in a bias: it suggests excellence is inherently individualistic, even lonely, and that teams are essentially collections of lone geniuses. That’s motivating, but it’s also a warning. If you build a culture around “eagles,” you risk undervaluing the unglamorous connective tissue - the collaborators who make a high performer’s brilliance scalable. Perot’s quote works because it’s both aspirational and transactional: a romantic image harnessed to a hiring mandate.