James Dyson Quotes

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James Dyson

Profession : Designer

Birth : May 2, 1947

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

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Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.

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Insurance companies don't make anything.

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I'm not a businessman.

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You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.

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Beauty can come in strange forms.

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I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.

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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.

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We should have A-levels in vocational subjects.

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Some people are academically inclined, some vocationally and we shouldn't penalise the latter.

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

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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.

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It is an extreme perversion of capitalism if you can trade in something before you have even paid for it.

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Emerging markets are hugely important.

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What I often do is just think of a completely obtuse thing to do, almost the wrong thing to do. That often works because you start a different approach, something no one has tried.

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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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Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.

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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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In the past, the U.K. got away with selling things that weren't unusual. Now it's no use trying to export without having something that's unusual and better.

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