James Dyson Quotes
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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.
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My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.
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The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.
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I don't believe in brands.
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An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.
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I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.
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The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.
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Some people are academically inclined, some vocationally and we shouldn't penalise the latter.
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People buy products if they're better.
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In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
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Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.
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If you want to do something different, you're going to come up against a lot of naysayers.
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Emerging markets are hugely important.
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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.
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If robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person.
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You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.
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I hate science fiction.
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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.
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I'm not a businessman.
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Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.
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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.
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Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.
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Insurance companies don't make anything.
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Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.