James Dyson Quotes
- All Quotes
-
Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.
-
People buy products if they're better.
-
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.
-
You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.
-
My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.
-
Some people are academically inclined, some vocationally and we shouldn't penalise the latter.
-
Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.
-
I hate science fiction.
-
I've obviously used fans - I wouldn't say all my life, because we couldn't afford them when I was young, but from my 20s and onwards we've had to use fans. And I've always loathed them. Everything about them. The way you adjust them, getting them at the angle you want. Carrying them. Cleaning them. The danger of putting your finger in them.
-
Reality TV is anything but.
-
China has all the advantages in the world. But it doesn't have a history of free thinking, risk-taking pioneers - the kind of people the U.S. is built upon.
-
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.
-
If you really want to improve technology, if you want things to work better and be better, you've got to protect the person who spends a lot of effort, money, and time developing that new technology.
-
I imported the first Mac into England in 1984; you know, the beige box. I imported what I think were the first four that came into England. I never opened the instruction manual. That was the best thing about it.
-
As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.
-
Now, we don't teach children in schools to be creative. We don't teach them to experiment. We want them to fill in the right answer, tick the right answer in the box.
-
I don't believe in brands.
-
I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.
-
Emerging markets are hugely important.
-
If robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person.