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Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.

James Dyson Quotes

British - Designer Born: May 2, 1947

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Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success. James Dyson

Success, Failure, Enjoy

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

Together, Engineering, Ideas

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

Power, Engineers, Drive

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

Stubborn, You, Belief

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. James Dyson

Confidence, Busy, Ideas

Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that. James Dyson

Life, Mountain, Problems

If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment. James Dyson

Life, Music, Money

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

Work, Time, Technology

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

Problems, Engineer, Them

Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving. James Dyson

Business, Changing, Evolving

I've fought court battles over my inventions before. James Dyson

Court, Inventions, Battles

An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches. James Dyson

Path, Head, Riddled

You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer. James Dyson

Drawing, You, Inspiration

One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini. James Dyson

Fun, Inventions, Most

People buy products if they're better. James Dyson

People, Better, Products

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. James Dyson

Life, Cleaning, My Life

So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want. James Dyson

Technology, People, Think

Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are. James Dyson

People, Companies, Them

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. James Dyson

Dog, Child, Performance

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. James Dyson

Design, Me, You

The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is. James Dyson

Technology, Apple, Wonderful

Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible. James Dyson

Great, Thought, Ending

There's nothing wrong with things taking time. James Dyson

Time, Taking Time, Wrong

The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free. James Dyson

Free, Pencil, You

Beauty can come in strange forms. James Dyson

Beauty, Strange, Come

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. James Dyson

Best, Think, Know

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