James Dyson Quotes

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• [In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.
• [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…
• Failure is so much more interesting because you learn from it. That's what we should be teaching children at school, that being successful the first…
• 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…
• 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
• Enjoy failure and learn from it. You never learn from success.
• The key to success is failure… Success is made of 99 percent failure.
• 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…
• 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…
• I learned that the moment you want to slow down is the moment you should accelerate.
• 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…
• In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well.
• I just think things should work properly
• 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.…
• Beauty can come in strange forms.
• Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.
• Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.
• Life is a mountain of solvable problems and I enjoy that.
• Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.
• Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.

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