Quotes from James Dyson


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


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.


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


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.


I don't design down to a price.


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


Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.


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


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


Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.


Emerging markets are hugely important.


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


As a modern employer you have to treat people well.


One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.


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


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.


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


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


There's nothing wrong with things taking time.


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