James Dyson Quotes
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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I got a big mouth.
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It used to be that when an actress reached thirty, she was considered almost washed up.
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
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Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
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The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.
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Art is art, and journalism is journalism.
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Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.
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My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
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Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
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The world is full of opportunities - every day there's something new that you can do. For example, you could make dirty water potable. Why does anyone not have potable water? Because it's a problem that hasn't been solved yet, but it can be.
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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I do think one success of Northern Europe, which the United States came from, was its willingness to accept innovation in business practices like Adam Smith and the whole Enlightenment. It essentially made the merchant class free instead of controlled by the king and aristocracy. That was essential.
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In practice, downsizing is too often about cutting your work force while keeping your business the same, and doing so not by investments in productivity-enhancing technology, but by making people pull 80-hour weeks and bringing in temps to fill the gap.
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I've stepped more into my business and really... taken control for how I want that to be.
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Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.
