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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Beauty can come in strange forms.

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  Strange, Form

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.

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  Car, Design, Racing

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• Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.

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  Designer, Usability, Inaccessible

  "Sir James Dyson: My 'Apple Moment'" by James Dyson, www.wired.com. October 6, 2011.

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• Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.

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  Evolve, Show Business

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

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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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  Mistake, Technology, Hands

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

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• If you want to do something different, you’re going to come up against a lot of naysayers.

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  Different, Want, Naysayers

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

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• [M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the creative industries.

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  Creativity, Science, Agency

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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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  Silly, Naughty, People

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

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• The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.

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  Computer, Pencils

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• I just want things to work properly.

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  Want, Programming

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