Quote

I made 5,127 prototypes of my vaccum 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.

James Dyson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

James Dyson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 2
Designer
Entrepreneur
Farmer
Industrial Designer
Inventor
Cromer
Norfolk
Sir James Dyson
Solutions
Failure
Learned
Came
Right
Prototypes
Made
Prototype
Mind
Failures
Solution

More quotes by James Dyson

Image
In the digital age of overnight success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
James Dyson
Image
I just think things should work properly.
James Dyson
Image
Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.
James Dyson
Image
If you can't be unconventional, be obtuse. Be deliberately obtuse, because there are 5 billion people out there thinking in train tracks, and thinking what they have been taught to think.
James Dyson
Image
Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.
James Dyson
Image
An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.
James Dyson
Image
If robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person.
James Dyson
Image
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
Image
After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology
James Dyson
Image
When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.
James Dyson
Image
In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well.
James Dyson
Image
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
Image
If you want to do something different, you’re going to come up against a lot of naysayers.
James Dyson
Image
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
Image
Don't listen to experts.
James Dyson
Image
You need a stubborn belief in an idea in order to see it realised.
James Dyson
Image
Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.
James Dyson
Image
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
Image
Beauty can come in strange forms.
James Dyson
Image
Life is a mountain of solvable problems and I enjoy that.
James Dyson