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Fear is always a good motivator. — James Dyson

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

I don't design down to a price. — James Dyson

Well, air-conditioning is not a good thing. — James Dyson

The British judiciary needs to support intellectual property. — James Dyson

I've fought court battles over my inventions before. — James Dyson

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

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. — James Dyson

Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education. — James Dyson

Success is made of 99% failure. — James Dyson

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

We should have A-levels in vocational subjects. — James Dyson

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

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

Don't listen to experts. — James Dyson

I just think things should work properly — James Dyson

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

Goodness, I know nothing about nuclear energy. — James Dyson

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

Reality TV is anything but. — James Dyson

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

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

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

Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving. — James Dyson

As a modern employer you have to treat people well. — James Dyson

When you can't compete on cost, compete on quality. — James Dyson

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

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. — James Dyson

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

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

Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing. — James Dyson

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

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. — James Dyson

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

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

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

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You never learn from success. — James Dyson

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

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

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

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. — James Dyson

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

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

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. — James Dyson

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

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

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

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

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

Anger is a good motivator. — James Dyson

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

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. — James Dyson

Insurance companies don't make anything. — James Dyson

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

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. — James Dyson

One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini. — James Dyson

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

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

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

Beauty can come in strange forms. — James Dyson

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

There's nothing wrong with things taking time. — James Dyson

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

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. — James Dyson

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success. — James Dyson

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

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

I'm not a businessman. — James Dyson

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

I like living on the edge. — James Dyson

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

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

All our engineers are designers and all our designers are engineers. — James Dyson

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

I don't believe in brands. — James Dyson

Emerging markets are hugely important. — James Dyson

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

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

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

I just want things to work properly. — James Dyson

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

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

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. — James Dyson

People buy products if they're better. — James Dyson

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