49 Inspirational James Dyson Quotes (SUCCESS)

Top 10 Most Famous James Dyson Quotes (BEST)

“We’re taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people haven’t, you need to do things the wrong way. Initiate a failure by doing something that’s very silly, unthinkable, naughty, dangerous. Watching why that fails can take you on a completely different path. It’s exciting, actually. To me, solving problems is a bit like a drug. You’re on it, and you can’t get off.”
James Dyson

I made 5,127 prototypes of my vacuum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from each one. That’s how I came up with a solution. So I don’t mind failure. — I made 5,127 prototypes of my vacuum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from each one. That’s how I came up with a solution. So I don’t mind **failure**.

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

What I've learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you're hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner. — What I’ve learned from **running** is that the **time** to push hard is when you’re hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.

Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.

“Some of the best inventive moments are born out of ‘wrong thinking’. Most people start with the right way so they all follow the same path. The wrong way will lead to mistakes from which you can learn and create new discoveries – the kind of original ideas that come to life when we dare to be different, keep an open mind, and have no fear of failure.”
James Dyson

Anyone can become an expert at anything in six months, whether it is hydrodynamics for boats or cyclonic systems for vacuum cleaners.

You are just as likely to solve a problem by being unconventional and determined as by being brilliant.

I could buy companies, tart up their products and put my name on them, but I don’t want to do that. That’s what our competitors do.

Everyone gets knocked back, no one rises smoothly to the top without hindrance. The ones who succeed are those who say, right, let’s give it another go.

6 Motivational James Dyson Quotes on Success

“In business you will be wrong, by and large, 50 percent of the time. The trick is to recognise when you have gone wrong and correct the damage — not to worry, at the moment of making the decision, whether it is the right one.”
James Dyson

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

I learned that the moment you want to slow down is the moment you should accelerate.

It is said that to be an overnight success takes years of effort. So it has proved with me. — It is said that to be an overnight success takes years of **effort**. So it has proved with me.

When you can't compete on cost, compete on quality. — When you can’t compete on cost, compete on quality.

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

3 Inspirational James Dyson Quotes About Life

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

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. — 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.

7 James Dyson Quotes About Fulfilling an Idea

“Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they think with their hands and their brains. They’re experts in design, engineering and business.”
James Dyson

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

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

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.

After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology. — After the idea, there is plenty of **time** to learn the technology.

Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope. — Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: **hope**.

There's nothing wrong with things taking time. — There’s nothing wrong with things taking **time**.

9 James Dyson Quotes on Design and Technology

“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

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

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

I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it. — I don’t particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box – simplify it.

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

“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

The way the world is going, it is technology driven. And it isn't just driven by the old super powers, it's driven by the far east and new emerging economies. — The way the world is going, it is technology driven. And it isn’t just driven by the old super powers, it’s driven by the far east and new emerging economies.

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

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. — 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.

4 James Dyson Quotes on Research and Development

“We always want to create something new out of nothing, and without research, and without long hard hours of effort. But there is no such things as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence — and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.”
James Dyson

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. — 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.

“Risk aversion is a hapless approach for a company that’s hoping to develop new technology. It’s tempting in a downturn. But long-term research and development, expensive and often filled with failure as it is, is the only route to discovering it. By taking the cautious path, companies risk a drought of ideas.”
James Dyson

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

2 James Dyson Quotes on Studying Engineering

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.

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. — 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.

8 Wise James Dyson Quotes that Will Make You Think (WISDOM)

“Hire inexperience. This year we plan to hire 200 engineers – half of whom are recent grads. Young people are not burdened by years of experience. They haven’t learned – or been told – what is right or wrong. With engineering, there is no tried and tested path. You try, and fail, and fix, and fail again.”
James Dyson