James Dyson Quotes

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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.

  James Dyson

  Mind, Made, Prototype

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• Enjoy failure and learn from it. You never learn from success.

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  Magic, Enjoy

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• Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.

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  Mistake, Important, Teach

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• What I've learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you're hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.

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  Inspirational, Running, Hurt

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• Some of the best inventive moments are born out of 'wrong thinking'. Most people start with the right way so they all follow the same path. The wrong way will lead to mistakes from which you can learn and create new discoveries-the kind of original ideas that come to life when we dare to be different, keep an open mind, and have no fear of failure.

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  Mistake, Thinking, Ideas

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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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  Giving, Succeed, Hindrance

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• Success is made of 99% failure.

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  Made

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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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  Order, Needs, Passionate

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• Life is a mountain of solvable problems and I enjoy that.

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  Mountain, Problem, Life Is

  "James Dyson on Using Failure to Drive Success". Interview with Nadia Goodman, www.entrepreneur.com. November 5, 2012.

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• After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology

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  Technology, Ideas, Plenty

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• Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are.

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  People, Company, Ingenious

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• There's nothing wrong with things taking time.

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  Take Time

  "Sir James Dyson: Design Is Everyday Problem Solving" by Beth Carter, www.wired.com. May 1, 2012.

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• Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

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  Inspiring, Ideas, May

  "James Dyson Interview: 5,127 Vacuum Prototypes, So It Would Suck in the Right Way" by Gregory Han, www.apartmenttherapy.com. January 29, 2009.

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• You need a stubborn belief in an idea in order to see it realised.

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  Order, Ideas, Needs

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• Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.

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  Technology, Needs, Characteristics

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• An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.

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  Scratches, Fists, Path

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• It's the unlikely juxtaposition of creativity and logic which causes the wooliness and confusion around the term 'innovation'. Everybody wants to be innovative; many companies and ideas are proclaimed to be innovative and no one doubts that innovation is a money spinner. And, thus, we are all looking for the magic formula. Well, here you go: Creativity + Iterative Development = Innovation.

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  Creativity, Ideas, Confusion

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• Exactly 5,126 attempts to make the first bagless vacuum cleaner were failures-some catastrophic disappointments, some minor defects. It took 15 years. Prototype 5,127 was the success ... Failure is painful, but it spurs on improvement like nothing else.

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  Disappointment, Years, Firsts

  "Failure can be an option" by James Dyson, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2012.

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• Anger is a good motivator.

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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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  Persistence, Looks, Ends

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• Beauty can come in strange forms.

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  Strange, Form

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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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  Entrepreneur, Retail, Want

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• I learned that the moment you want to slow down is the moment you should accelerate.

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  Want, Moments, Slow Down

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• Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they think with their hands and their brains. They're experts in design, engineering and business.

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  Thinking, Engineering, Hands

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• Hire inexperience. This year we plan to hire 200 engineers - half of whom are recent grads. Young people are not burdened by years of experience. They haven't learned - or been told - what is right or wrong. With engineering, there is no tried and tested path. You try, and fail, and fix, and fail again.

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  Engineering, Years, People

  "Dyson Founder James Dyson On Hiring Inexperience" by Margaret Rhodes, www.fastcompany.com. November 26, 2012.

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