James Dyson Quotes
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.
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The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
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If I can stay constantly busy, I'll be happy.
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My dreams are all follies.
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Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
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A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they're supposed to be leaders in the world, they're followers. They follow what they think someone else is doing, instead of trying to blaze a trail.
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Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.
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I think the toughest part for me was when Herschelle said that he obviously looked up to his Captain, and he felt if his Captain could do it, then so could he, and that to me was when it really struck home.
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Maybe self-publishing is going to be an extra step added to publishing. Maybe what's going to happen is you self-publish a book, someone notices it - an agent? - and it goes from there into the traditional sphere.
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Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
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I have made a lot of mistakes raising the four Jenner kids.
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I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you use statistics in productive ways to analyze dynamic economic models.
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I literally went down to my car and thought, 'Oh my God, SAP bought Concur - maybe tomorrow they'll buy Dairy Queen.' It was the best thing that happened to me on the day I was named CEO of Oracle.
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To wash dishes is not the same as a guy running a numerically-controlled machine. That guy running a numerically-controlled machine is going to get a higher level of pay because his training is higher, and he should get a higher level of pay.
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You have a kid, and it's like, 'He's gotta go to college! Gotta have some clothes!'
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If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
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A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
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When we lose, we don't have to change everything but correct things by working hard.
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If a new president personalizes a rather different concept of America and a different sense of America's mission in the world than has been the case with president George W. Bush, then that almost automatically will help to improve America's global image. But the tangibles involving the war and the economy are not going to be easy to fix.
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The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected.
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Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would.
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One thing is to escape from prison, but what the Texas 7 did that night crossed the line they should have never crossed.
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I own every share of my company, and I don't want to sell any of it.
