Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.
You mentioned Ross Perot. Mr. Perot jumped into the race at the last minute, had one issue that he ran on, the budget deficit, was in and out of the race a couple of times, and still got 20 million votes, didn't have the Internet.
If you do things well one at a time, you end up in a really good place. Don't get ahead of yourself. Control the things you can.

