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Monday, October 6th, 2008
“It really hurt. It was devastating to have to stand up in front of a workforce and tell them they would be made redundant. It hurt to have to admit that I couldn’t manufacture in Britain, having been a great supporter of manufacturing in Britain. But it was the right thing to do if we wanted to stick around.”
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James Dyson in an interview with Guardian
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
“I always liked this business of finding sort of rather disgusting things, like hand dryers and vacuum cleaners and making them fun to use rather than dull. I mean, there’s problems everywhere when you start looking.”
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James Dyson
In an interview with Fortune Small Business
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
“It’s a rather dull, amateurish, very unflashy advertisement. We liked the idea of being upset by something at home, doing something about it and taking on the big boys. It’s a great American story.”
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James Dyson on his first U.S. commercials
in an interview with Guardian
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
“We were extremely cautious about coming into the American market. There are a lot of very successful, very powerful multinational companies. It’s a tough place to do business and it’s a very litigious place to do business.”
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James Dyson in an interview with Guardian
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
“Americans have a very particular approach to making things work, and you can see it in their tools. They might not always look very good, but they work and are down to earth, which was the kind of engineering I admired.”
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James Dyson in an interview with Guardian
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Monday, September 8th, 2008
“Failure is like a drug, actually. You go to work each day excited, because you know there are hundreds of problems there that you haven’t solved. It’s living on the edge, because you might come up with the solution or you might not. The future of the company depends on it.”
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James Dyson in an interview with Fortune
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
“An engineer’s life is 99 percent failure. So failure clearly doesn’t depress me.”
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James Dyson in an interview with Fortune
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