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

James Dyson Quotes

British - Designer Born: May 2, 1947

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

Mountain, Enjoy, Life Is A

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

Testing, More, Putting

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

Behind, Pop, Pills

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

Failure, Learn, Never

When you can't compete on cost, compete on quality. James Dyson

You, Compete, Cost

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. James Dyson

New, Going, Far East

If you want to do something different, you're going to come up against a lot of naysayers. James Dyson

Against, Going, Lot

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

Digital, Facebook, Stories

If robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person. James Dyson

Better, Person, Than

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

Lazy, Size, Convenient

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

Nature, Most, Almost

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something. James Dyson

Worry, Enigma, Teaches

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

Nothing, Taking Time, Things

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. James Dyson

Think, Works, Almost

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

Them, Companies, Ingenious

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

How, Solve, Plotting

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

Computer, How, Dictates

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

Ideas, Bright, Subject

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. James Dyson

Doing, Own, Idea

Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving. James Dyson

Business, Changing, Evolving

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

Stubborn, See, Realised

I like living on the edge. James Dyson

Edge, Living, Like

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, New, Want

Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward. James Dyson

Everybody, Very, Efficient

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

My Life, Young, Putting

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

Think, Winners, Which

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