James Dyson Quotes

Fear is always a good motivator.

Some people are academically inclined, some vocationally and we shouldn't penalise the latter.

I don't design down to a price.

Well, air-conditioning is not a good thing.

The British judiciary needs to support intellectual property.

I've fought court battles over my inventions before.

As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.

I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.

Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.

Success is made of 99% failure.

Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.

We should have A-levels in vocational subjects.

Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are.

People will make leaps of faith and get excited by your product if you just get it in front of them.

Don't listen to experts.

I just think things should work properly

My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.

Goodness, I know nothing about nuclear energy.

I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.

Reality TV is anything but.

Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.

If robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person.

We should learn to live more with our climate and rely less on electricity to alter our climate.

Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.

As a modern employer you have to treat people well.

When you can't compete on cost, compete on quality.

The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.

At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.

Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.

Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.

Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.

The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.

I was frustrated as a child when I had to use a vacuum. It had a screaming noise and the smell of stale dog and a lack of performance.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

China can and will be an invaluable trading partner to both the U.S. and the U.K.

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You never learn from success.

Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.

[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.

The key to success is failure ... Success is made of 99 percent failure.

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.

Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.

The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.

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.

The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.

We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.

It is an extreme perversion of capitalism if you can trade in something before you have even paid for it.

Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.

If you want to do something different, you're going to come up against a lot of naysayers.

Anger is a good motivator.

Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.

I think if you have to pay for your education, you worry very seriously about you're going to do when you've got your degree.

Insurance companies don't make anything.

I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.

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.

One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.

I own every share of my company, and I don't want to sell any of it.

You need a stubborn belief in an idea in order to see it realised.

I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.

Beauty can come in strange forms.

Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.

There's nothing wrong with things taking time.

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.

I don't do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it's a logical business decision.

An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.

I'm not a businessman.

I learned that the moment you want to slow down is the moment you should accelerate.

I like living on the edge.

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.

You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.

All our engineers are designers and all our designers are engineers.

After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology

I don't believe in brands.

Emerging markets are hugely important.

So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.

In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well.

Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that.

I just want things to work properly.

In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.

I'm afraid I am tidy, and I have to be because the office is open plan and my glass office door is literally always open.

People buy products if they're better.

Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don't need great big vacuums anymore.