James Dyson Quotes - Page 2

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• If you can't be unconventional, be obtuse. Be deliberately obtuse, because there are 5 billion people out there thinking in train tracks, and thinking what they have been taught to think.

  James Dyson

  Thinking, People, Track

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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.

  James Dyson

  Running, Pain, Giving Up

  "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.

  James Dyson

  Computer, Pencils

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• Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.

  James Dyson

  Great Inventions, Next, Moments

  "No innovator's dilemma here: in praise of failure" by James Dyson, www.wired.com. April 8, 2011.

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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.

  James Dyson

  Entrepreneur, Retail, Want

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• Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.

  James Dyson

  Kids, Arbitrary, Cheat

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• As a modern employer you have to treat people well.

  James Dyson

  People, Modern, Treats

  "James Dyson calls for looser employment laws and shorter leases". Interview with Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2012.

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• If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.

  James Dyson

  Writing, Heart, Emotional

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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

  James Dyson

  Business, Trying, Culture

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

  James Dyson

  Designer, Usability, Inaccessible

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

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• The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.

  James Dyson

  Lazy, Size, Fit

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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.

  James Dyson

  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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• 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.

  James Dyson

  Engineering, Years, People

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

  James Dyson

  Children, Parent, Challenges

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• Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.

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  Worry, Teach, Enigma

  "Billionaire Inventor James Dyson On Why Failure Is So Valuable" by Max Nisen, www.businessinsider.com. December 19, 2012.

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

  James Dyson

  Scratches, Fists, Path

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

  James Dyson

  Home, Robots, Clean

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• Anger is a good motivator.

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

  James Dyson

  Engineering, Design, Natural

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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 key to success is failure… Success is made of 99 percent failure.

  James Dyson

  Keys, Key To Success, Made

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• Don't listen to experts.

  James Dyson

  Experts

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

  James Dyson

  Car, Design, Racing

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• So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.

  James Dyson

  Thinking, Technology, People

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• If you really want to improve technology, if you want things to work better and be better, you've got to protect the person who spends a lot of effort, money, and time developing that new technology.

  James Dyson

  Technology, Effort, Want

  "How James Dyson Makes the Ordinary Extraordinary". Interview with Shoshana Berger, www.wired.com. November 19, 2012.

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