Trevor Baylis Quotes

  • The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress. As long as you’ve got slightly more perception that the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something. - View Quote Details on The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts…
  • As they say, art is pleasure, invention is treasure, and this nation has got to recognise that. If they can spend a fortune on dead sheep and formaldehyde, then it can spend a bit more of that money on inventors. - View Quote Details on As they say, art is pleasure, invention is treasure, and…
  • 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. - View Quote Details on I’d work eighteen-hour stretches and fall asleep in my clothes…
  • A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a halt. - View Quote Details on A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making…
  • 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 word of honour, and I made the error of actually believing what the men in the pin-striped suits told me. - View Quote Details on But there is only one person I blame for getting…

About Trevor Baylis

Trevor G. Baylis (born May 13, 1937 in Kilburn, London) is an English inventor. He is best known for inventing a wind-up radio.

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