James Dyson Quotes
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Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.
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Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.
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As a modern employer you have to treat people well.
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I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.
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We have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of money
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The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.
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Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.
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Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.
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As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.
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We’re taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people haven’t, you need to do things the wrong way. Initiate a failure by doing something that’s very silly, unthinkable, naughty, dangerous. Watching why that fails can take you on a completely different path. It’s exciting, actually. To me, solving problems is a bit like a drug. You’re on it, and you can’t get off.
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Beauty can come in strange forms.
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I learned that the moment you want to slow down is the moment you should accelerate.
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Life is a mountain of solvable problems and I enjoy that.
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Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.
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When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had.
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Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are.
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The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.
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The way the world is going, it's technology driven. And it isn't just driven by the old super powers, it's driven by the far east and new emerging economies.
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There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.
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I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.
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I've fought court battles over my inventions before.
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The important thing is to learn from mistakes - something graduates are adept at. Our graduate engineers are working on new technology - from uncharted applications for our digital motor, to a new take on the hand dryer. With an unhindered mind, nothing is off limits.
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Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.
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I made 5,127 prototypes of my vaccum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from each one. That’s how I came up with a solution. So I don’t mind failure.
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Reality TV is anything but.
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I just want things to work properly.
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Everyone gets knocked back, no one rises smoothly to the top without hindrance. The ones who succeed are those who say, right, let’s give it another go.
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Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.
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I just think things should work properly.
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In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well.
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