James Dyson

Designer

1947-05-02

Quotes by James Dyson

• In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well.

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• In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well.

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• Anger is a good motivator.

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

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• I was frustrated as a child when I had to use a vacuum. It had a screaming noise and the smell of stale dog and a lack of performance.

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

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• You need a stubborn belief in an idea in order to see it realised.

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• Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.

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• Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.

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• There's nothing wrong with things taking time.

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• Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

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• The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.

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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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• Now, we don't teach children in schools to be creative. We don't teach them to experiment. We want them to fill in the right answer, tick the right answer in the box.

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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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• The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.

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• We should have A-levels in vocational subjects.

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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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• 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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