James Dyson Quotes
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I've fought court battles over my inventions before.
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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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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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Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.
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We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.
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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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We should learn to live more with our climate and rely less on electricity to alter our climate.
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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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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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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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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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As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.
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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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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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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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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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If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way.
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We should have A-levels in vocational subjects.
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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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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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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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People buy products if they're better.