Trevor Baylis famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress.
-- Trevor Baylis

#Success #Thinking #Keys
But there is only one person I blame for getting shafted, and that's myself. I went into the deal which I thought would secure the future of Orange Aids with culpable impetuosity. I had been used to doing business on a handshake and my work of honour, and I made the error of actually believing what the men in the pin-striped suits told me.
-- Trevor Baylis

#Business #Believe #Men
As long as you've got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something,
-- Trevor Baylis

#Average #Long #Perception
I'd work eighteen-hour stretches and fall asleep in my clothes. Then I'd wake up in the middle of the night, brew a pot of tea, and start work again. I was tired, but work had become pure enjoyment.
-- Trevor Baylis

#Fall #Tired #Night
Invention isn't some impenetrable brand of magic; anyone can have a go.
-- Trevor Baylis

#Magic #Invention #Brands
The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots with glasses held together with Sellotape is beguiling but wrong.
-- Trevor Baylis

#Glasses #Together #Madness
Visionaries and dreamers have always been dusted with a little oddity.
-- Trevor Baylis

#Oddities #Dreamer #Visionaries
All inventors, they say, are a little mad. I reckon that only completely sane people are willing to admit they are slightly crazy.
-- Trevor Baylis

#Crazy #Mad #People
That was the Alka-Seltzer moment, the moment when the tablet hits the water and begins to fizz.
-- Trevor Baylis

#Inspiration #Water #Tablets
Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed.
-- Trevor Baylis

#Inspiration #Night #Ideas
I was on automatic pilot; ideas for gadgets kept coming, fed by a force of energy flowing through me and around me.
-- Trevor Baylis

#Ideas #Pilots #Energy
A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a halt.
-- Trevor Baylis

#Ideas #Mind #Cogs
But having had your bright, fresh, original idea, the really hard part is turning it into a successful product. That's what takes all the sweat.
-- Trevor Baylis

#Successful #Sweat #Ideas
Do what gives you a buzz.
-- Trevor Baylis

#Giving #Buzz #Purpose

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