James Dyson Quotes

“Success is made of 99% failure.”

“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.”

“Fear is always a good motivator.”

“There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence – and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.”

“Enjoy failure and learn from it. You never learn from success.”

“I just think things should work properly.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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