James Dyson Quotes

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James Dyson

Profession : Designer

Birth : May 2, 1947

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.

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Fear is always a good motivator.

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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.

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The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.

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Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

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Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.

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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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Reality TV is anything but.

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

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Now, we don't teach children in schools to be creative. We don't teach them to experiment. We want them to fill in the right answer, tick the right answer in the box.

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At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.

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When you can't compete on cost, compete on quality.

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

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Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that.

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When you say 'design,' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything.

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We should learn to live more with our climate and rely less on electricity to alter our climate.

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People will make leaps of faith and get excited by your product if you just get it in front of them.

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As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.

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If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way.

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

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