James Dyson Quotes
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Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don't need great big vacuums anymore.
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I've fought court battles over my inventions before.
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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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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.
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As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.
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If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way.
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Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.
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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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If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.
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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.
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I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.
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We should have A-levels in vocational subjects.
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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.
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Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.
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So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.
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When you can't compete on cost, compete on quality.
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Well, air-conditioning is not a good thing.
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Anger is a good motivator.
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Well, I'm rather attracted to rather prosaic things like vacuum cleaners and hand dryers. Where people haven't apparently made them with a great love for what they're doing.
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China can and will be an invaluable trading partner to both the U.S. and the U.K.
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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.
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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.
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Reality TV is anything but.
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Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.