James Dyson Quotes - Page 3

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• [M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the creative industries.

  James Dyson

  Creativity, Science, Agency

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• We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.

  James Dyson

  Technology, Needs, High Technology

  "Expressing Technology: A Roundtable With Sir James Dyson". Interview with Tim Carmody, www.wired.com. September 19, 2011.

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• If you really want to improve technology, if you want things to work better and be better, you've got to protect the person who spends a lot of effort, money, and time developing that new technology.

  James Dyson

  Technology, Effort, Want

  "How James Dyson Makes the Ordinary Extraordinary". Interview with Shoshana Berger, www.wired.com. November 19, 2012.

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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.

  James Dyson

  Engineering, Ideas, Together

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• Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

  James Dyson

  Technology, Ideas, Design

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• As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.

  James Dyson

  Problem, Solve, Engineers

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• Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.

  James Dyson

  Engineering, Boring, Treated

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• The important thing is to learn from mistakes - something graduates are adept at. Our graduate engineers are working on new technology - from uncharted applications for our digital motor, to a new take on the hand dryer. With an unhindered mind, nothing is off limits.

  James Dyson

  Mistake, Technology, Hands

  "Dyson Founder James Dyson On Hiring Inexperience" by Margaret Rhodes, www.businessinsider.com. November 26, 2012.

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• The key to success is failure… Success is made of 99 percent failure.

  James Dyson

  Keys, Key To Success, Made

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• Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.

  James Dyson

  Kids, Arbitrary, Cheat

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• [In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.

  James Dyson

  Home, Learning, Science

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• In the past, the U.K. got away with selling things that weren't unusual. Now it's no use trying to export without having something that's unusual and better.

  James Dyson

  Past, Selling Things, Trying

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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.

  James Dyson

  House, Machines, Electric

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• Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.

  James Dyson

  Today, Computer

  "Sir James Dyson: My 'apple moment'". www.wired.com. October 6, 2011.

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• One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.

  James Dyson

  Fun, Lifetime, Invention

  "Silicon chip 'most influential invention'". www.cnn.com. December 31, 2004.

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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.

  James Dyson

  Thinking, Engineering, People

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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.

  James Dyson

  Thinking, Government, People

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• Most robotic vacuum cleaners don't see their environment, have little suction, and don't clean properly. They are gimmicks. We've been developing a unique 360 vision system that lets our robot see where it is, where it has been, and where it is yet to clean. Vision, combined with our high speed digital motor and cyclone technology, is the key to achieving a high performing robot vacuum - a genuine labor saving device.

  James Dyson

  Unique, Technology, Keys

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• Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.

  James Dyson

  Home, Car, Pills

  "Engineers always do the business, Lord Sugar" by James Dyson, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.

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• Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don't need great big vacuums anymore.

  James Dyson

  People, House, Vacuums

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• I just think things should work properly.

  James Dyson

  Thinking, Should

  "Sir James Dyson: 7 Things You Didn't Know About Suction King" by Kim Lengle and Lauren Effron, abcnews.go.com. August 19, 2013.

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• My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.

  James Dyson

  Catholic, Watches, Fiction

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• In the digital age of "overnight" success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

  James Dyson

  Age, Stories, Digital

  "Failure can be an option" by James Dyson, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2012.

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• Emerging markets are hugely important.

  James Dyson

  Important, Emerging Markets, Emerging

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• China can and will be an invaluable trading partner to both the U.S. and the U.K.

  James Dyson

  Partners, China, Trading

  "Sir James Dyson: China Stalls IP Reform at Its Own Peril" by James Dyson, www.wired.com. January 5, 2012.

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