James Dyson Quotes
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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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Insurance companies don't make anything.
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Goodness, I know nothing about nuclear energy.
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Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.
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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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Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.
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I don't design down to a price.
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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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Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.
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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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I myself scraped seven poor passes at O-level.
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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 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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As a modern employer you have to treat people well.
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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.
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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.