James Dyson Quotes
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The British judiciary needs to support intellectual property.
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I don't design down to a price.
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I've obviously used fans - I wouldn't say all my life, because we couldn't afford them when I was young, but from my 20s and onwards we've had to use fans. And I've always loathed them. Everything about them. The way you adjust them, getting them at the angle you want. Carrying them. Cleaning them. The danger of putting your finger in them.
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Goodness, I know nothing about nuclear energy.
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I imported the first Mac into England in 1984; you know, the beige box. I imported what I think were the first four that came into England. I never opened the instruction manual. That was the best thing about it.
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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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Beauty can come in strange forms.
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Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.
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Don't listen to experts.
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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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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 own every share of my company, and I don't want to sell any of it.
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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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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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Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.
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Fear is always a good motivator.
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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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What I often do is just think of a completely obtuse thing to do, almost the wrong thing to do. That often works because you start a different approach, something no one has tried.