James Dyson Quotes

Improvement at anything is based on thousands of tiny failures, and the magnitude of your success is based on how many times you've failed at something.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

You learn by trying and failing. Just a lot of hard work and mistakes.

Mistakes come from doing, but so does success.

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.

Without failure there is no achievement.

I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.

I haven't always done a good job, and I haven't always been successful - but I know that I have tried.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.

I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.

Before you become successful, you have to fall down on your face.

I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.

When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

You can see that all these people who did really great things failed six times or didn't get going until they were much older. I think that's much more instructive and educational.

For me, failure is not a bad thing because it teaches you how to succeed.

Everything that I do should be wrong, but I started really young, and I just learned how to learn. I would fail, and I would figure out why that didn't go right and do it again.

'Victory Lap,' even the title. It's the accumulation of trial and error; that's what I represent; trial and error.

You do feel bad when things don't work. But you cannot succeed without failing. It goes hand-in-hand.

It wouldn't be any fun if you didn't fail sometimes.

When you're successful at something, you think that you need to continue to do what you're doing to get the same result. But I think in order to get better, sometimes you need some failures.

I've failed hundreds of thousands of times.