James Dyson Quotes
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Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.
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If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.
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I don't do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it's a logical business decision.
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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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I've fought court battles over my inventions before.
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We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.
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I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.
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Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don't need great big vacuums anymore.
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Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.
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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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Cordless vacuums are designed for quick jobs, but you need enough power to do the job; you don't want the power waning over time.
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Well, I'm rather attracted to rather prosaic things like vacuum cleaners and hand dryers. Where people haven't apparently made them with a great love for what they're doing.
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So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.
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When you can't compete on cost, compete on quality.
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When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had.
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We should have A-levels in vocational subjects.
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I'm afraid I am tidy, and I have to be because the office is open plan and my glass office door is literally always open.
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As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.
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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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My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.
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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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China can and will be an invaluable trading partner to both the U.S. and the U.K.
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The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.
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The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.