Success Quote by Ross Perot

Life, Perot implies, is messy by design and only looks legible from the distance of a PowerPoint slide. The organization chart is the managerial fantasy: clean boxes, clean lines, authority flowing downward like gravity. A cobweb is the opposite kind of structure - intricate, improvised, built for survival, and held together by tension more than rules. It catches what it needs, lets go of what it can’t use, and survives by being both fragile and astonishingly resilient.

Coming from Perot, the line reads less like a poet’s metaphor than a businessman’s corrective. He made his reputation selling systems and later made a second career torching the political class for pretending government could be run like a corporation. The subtext: the people who insist everything can be “reorganized” are often the ones least prepared for how power actually moves - sideways through favors, relationships, informal knowledge, and sudden crises. A cobweb captures that reality: tug one strand and the whole network vibrates. Cause and effect aren’t linear; they’re contagious.

The intent is also a warning to strivers. If you build your life as if it’s an org chart - climb rung, get title, unlock happiness - you’re optimizing for a world that doesn’t exist. The more useful skill is pattern recognition: knowing which threads matter, where the stress points are, and how to adapt when the web shifts.