James Dyson Quotes

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

Path, Head, Inventor

Anger is a good motivator.
James Dyson

Good, Anger, Motivator

Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don't need great big vacuums anymore.
James Dyson

Great, Big, Whole

Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.
James Dyson

Education, Kids, Cheat

As a modern employer you have to treat people well.
James Dyson

Treat, Modern, Employer

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

Problems, Engineer, Solve

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.
James Dyson

Time, School, Playing

Beauty can come in strange forms.
James Dyson

Beauty, Strange, Forms

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.
James Dyson

Great, Strength, Design

Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.
James Dyson

Business, Changing, Evolving

Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.
James Dyson

Children, Parents, Challenge

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

Both, Partner, China

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.
James Dyson

History, Thinking, Free

Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are.
James Dyson

Ingenious, Companies

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.
James Dyson

Time, Power, Job

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.
James Dyson

Science, Technology, Design

Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.
James Dyson

Exciting, Racing, Cars

Don't listen to experts.
James Dyson

Listen, Experts

Emerging markets are hugely important.
James Dyson

Important, Emerging, Hugely

Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.
James Dyson

True, Boring, Whole

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.
James Dyson

Money, Government, Student

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

Power, Engineers, Behind

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.
James Dyson

Success, Failure, Enjoy

Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.
James Dyson

Forward, Everybody, Leap

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.
James Dyson

Confidence, Busy, May

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Nationality: British

Born: May 2, 1947

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