James Dyson Quotes

British - Designer Born: May 2, 1947

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. James Dyson

Engineering, Together, Ideas, More, Up

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

Power, Engineers, Drive, Way, Behind

Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that. James Dyson

Life, Mountain, Problems, Life Is A

Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us. James Dyson

Nature, Today, Computers, Us, Second

When you can't compete on cost, compete on quality. James Dyson

Quality, You, Cost, Compete

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

Free, You, Pencil, Something, How

I myself scraped seven poor passes at O-level. James Dyson

Myself, Poor, Seven, Passes

There's nothing wrong with things taking time. James Dyson

Time, Nothing, Taking Time, Wrong

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

Lazy, Testing, Size, Approach, Fits

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. James Dyson

Good, Money, People, Research, Think

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

Problems, Engineer, How, Plotting, Solve

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

Success, Failure, Enjoy, Learn, You

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something. James Dyson

Failure, Worry, You, Something, Enigma

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

Success, Age, Digital, Overnight Success

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. James Dyson

Life, My Life, Cleaning, You, Want, Say

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

People, Companies, Ingenious, Them

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, Ideas, Busy, Doing, Want, Up

The way the world is going, it's technology driven. And it isn't just driven by the old super powers, it's driven by the far east and new emerging economies. James Dyson

Technology, World, Way, New, Old, Going

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

Better, Robots, Person, Clean, Our, Than

I don't believe in brands. James Dyson

Believe, Brands

Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead. James Dyson

Plan, You, Nobody, Ahead, Years, Wants

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

Technology, Science, Ideas, Design, Turn

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

Engineering, True, Boring, Irrelevant

What I often do is just think of a completely obtuse thing to do, almost the wrong thing to do. That often works because you start a different approach, something no one has tried. James Dyson

Think, Start, You, Wrong, Different

If you want to do something different, you're going to come up against a lot of naysayers. James Dyson

You, Want, Different, Up, Going, Against

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

Live, Learn, Electricity, More, Alter

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