Quote

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

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
Something
Enigma
Teaches
Failure
Worry
Teach

More quotes by James Dyson

Image
An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.
James Dyson
Image
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
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
I've fought court battles over my inventions before.
James Dyson
Image
Don't listen to experts.
James Dyson
Image
Enjoy failure and learn from it. You never learn from success.
James Dyson
Image
Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.
James Dyson
Image
After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology
James Dyson
Image
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
Image
In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well.
James Dyson
Image
Anger is a good motivator.
James Dyson
Image
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
Image
Cordless vacuums are designed for quick jobs, but you need enough power to do the job you don't want the power waning over time.
James Dyson
Image
I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.
James Dyson
Image
Beauty can come in strange forms.
James Dyson
Image
We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.
James Dyson
Image
Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.
James Dyson
Image
[M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the creative industries.
James Dyson
Image
A lot of people give up when the world seems to be against them, but that's the point when you should push a little harder. I use the analogy of running a race. It seems as though you can’t carry on, but if you just get through the pain barrier, you'll see the end and be okay. Often, just around the corner is where the solution will happen.
James Dyson
Image
I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.
James Dyson