James Dyson Quotes

I own every share of my company, and I don't want to sell any of it.

James Dyson

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• What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Up
  • Job
  • Writer

• A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Think
  • Opinion
  • Woman

• The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Simple
  • Act
  • Analysis

• If I can stay constantly busy, I'll be happy.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • Happy
  • Busy
  • Be Happy

• My dreams are all follies.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Dreams
  • Follies

• Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • Information
  • Trade
  • Sit

• 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.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• 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.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • May
  • Man
  • Same

• 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.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Up
  • Home
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Victoria Strauss
  • Book
  • You
  • Step

• Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Success
  • Best
  • Goal

• I have made a lot of mistakes raising the four Jenner kids.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kids
  • Made
  • Mistakes

• 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.

  

  Lars Peter Hansen
  • Work
  • Understanding
  • Economics

• 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.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • God
  • Day
  • Car

• 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.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Guy
  • Running
  • Training

• You have a kid, and it's like, 'He's gotta go to college! Gotta have some clothes!'

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • College
  • Clothes
  • Kid

• If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Think
  • Car
  • Couple

• A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Man
  • Facts
  • Thinks

• You're born with a certain love of something. Music was my first love, and that's the world I work from. Growing up, I was surrounded by artists, so my upbringing supported this lifestyle.

  

  Condola Rashad
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Nature
  • Success
  • Philosophy

• Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Story
  • Youth
  • Torment

• I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also - I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening.

  

  Bob Balaban
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• There is this absurd assumption that the revitalisation of the public sphere is always a good thing. I think people tend to confuse 'civic' and 'civil,' and they believe that everything that is done by citizens is necessarily a good thing because you build a network, an association.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Done

• I own every share of my company, and I don't want to sell any of it.

  

  James Dyson