James Dyson Quotes
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The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.
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The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.
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Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.
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Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.
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One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.
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In the past, the U.K. got away with selling things that weren't unusual. Now it's no use trying to export without having something that's unusual and better.
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Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.
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It is an extreme perversion of capitalism if you can trade in something before you have even paid for it.
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There's nothing wrong with things taking time.
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Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that.
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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.
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The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.
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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.
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Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.
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Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.
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People will make leaps of faith and get excited by your product if you just get it in front of them.
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I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.
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The U.S. is the biggest investor in research and development in the world. It has the best universities. Keeping them supplied with the best talent is essential.
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I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.
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I like living on the edge.
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Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are.
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We should learn to live more with our climate and rely less on electricity to alter our climate.
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You need a stubborn belief in an idea in order to see it realised.
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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.