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
The most sensual James Dyson quotes that will activate your inner potential
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.
If you want to do something different, you’re going to come up against a lot of naysayers.
Exactly 5,126 attempts to make the first bagless vacuum cleaner were failures-some catastrophic disappointments, some minor defects. It took 15 years. Prototype 5,127 was the success ... Failure is painful, but it spurs on improvement like nothing else.
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.
Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.
[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.
I learned that the moment you want to slow down is the moment you should accelerate.
Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.
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.
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.
Failure is so much more interesting because you learn from it.
That's what we should be teaching children at school, that being successful the first time, there's nothing in it. There's no interest, you learn nothing actually.
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.
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.
Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.
Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.
[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.
Beauty can come in strange forms.
After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology
All our engineers are designers and all our designers are engineers.
The key to success is failure… Success is made of 99 percent failure.
We have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of money
Don't listen to experts.
One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.
Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.
Most robotic vacuum cleaners don't see their environment, have little suction, and don't clean properly. They are gimmicks. We've been developing a unique 360 vision system that lets our robot see where it is, where it has been, and where it is yet to clean. Vision, combined with our high speed digital motor and cyclone technology, is the key to achieving a high performing robot vacuum - a genuine labor saving device.
I just think things should work properly.
Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.
Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are.
Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.
Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.
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.
In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well.
Success is made of 99% failure.
The important thing is to learn from mistakes - something graduates are adept at. Our graduate engineers are working on new technology - from uncharted applications for our digital motor, to a new take on the hand dryer. With an unhindered mind, nothing is off limits.
I just want things to work properly.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It's the unlikely juxtaposition of creativity and logic which causes the wooliness and confusion around the term 'innovation'. Everybody wants to be innovative; many companies and ideas are proclaimed to be innovative and no one doubts that innovation is a money spinner. And, thus, we are all looking for the magic formula. Well, here you go: Creativity + Iterative Development = Innovation.