James Dyson Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Life is a mountain of solvable problems and I enjoy that.”
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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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“Enjoy failure and learn from it. You never learn from success.”
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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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“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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“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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“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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“In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well.”
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“Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.”
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“Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.”
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“Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.”
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“After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology”
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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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“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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“One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.”
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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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“Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.”
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“When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.”
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“Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.”
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“There's nothing wrong with things taking time.”
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“As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.”
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“The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.”
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“The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.”
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“We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.”
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“When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had.”
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“I imported the first Mac into England in 1984; you know, the beige box. I imported what I think were the first four that came into England. I never opened the instruction manual. That was the best thing about it.”
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“Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.”
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“As a modern employer you have to treat people well.”
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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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