James Dyson Quotes
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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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When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.
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Anger is a good motivator.
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I don't design down to a price.
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Goodness, I know nothing about nuclear energy.
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If robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person.
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Beauty can come in strange forms.
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When you say 'design,' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything.
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Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.
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Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.
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Fear is always a good motivator.
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Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.
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I myself scraped seven poor passes at O-level.
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I think if you have to pay for your education, you worry very seriously about you're going to do when you've got your degree.
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I own every share of my company, and I don't want to sell any of it.
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Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.
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The way the world is going, it's technology driven. And it isn't just driven by the old super powers, it's driven by the far east and new emerging economies.
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As a modern employer you have to treat people well.
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I grew up running miles of the Norfolk coastline. I'd think nothing of a six-mile run before breakfast. I still run, though not as far and not before muesli.
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Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.