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.

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  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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• 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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• 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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• Success is made of 99% failure.

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  Made

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

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  Technology, Ideas, Plenty

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

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  People, Company, Ingenious

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• Beauty can come in strange forms.

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  Strange, Form

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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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  Government, Engineering, Long

  "Scrap tuition fees for engineering students, urges James Dyson" by Dan Milmo, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2012.

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• A lot of people give up when the world seems to be against them, but that's the point when you should push a little harder. I use the analogy of running a race. It seems as though you can’t carry on, but if you just get through the pain barrier, you'll see the end and be okay. Often, just around the corner is where the solution will happen.

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  Running, Pain, Giving Up

  "Failure Doesn’t Suck". Interview with Chuck Salter, www.fastcompany.com. May 1, 2007.

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• All our engineers are designers and all our designers are engineers.

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  Designer, Engineers

  "How To Make It" by John Seabrook, www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2010.

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• I just want things to work properly.

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  Want, Programming

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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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• Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.

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  Children, Parent, Challenges

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• Anger is a good motivator.

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• If robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person.

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  Home, Robots, Clean

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• Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

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  Engineering, Design, Natural

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