James Dyson Quotes

British - Designer Born: May 2, 1947

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

Failure, Worry, You, Something, Enigma

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

Together, Ideas, Engineering, Principles

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

Lazy, Standardized, Testing, Size, Fits

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

Success, Failure, Enjoy, You, Never

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

Life, Mountain, Problems, Enjoy

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

Time, Nothing, Wrong, Things, Taking

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

Nature, Today, Computers, Us, Most

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

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

Quality, You, Cost, Compete

I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them. James Dyson

Good, Science, People, Think, You, Got

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, Look, Want

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

Power, Drive, Engineers, Way, Behind

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

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

People, Them, Ingenious, Companies

We should have A-levels in vocational subjects. James Dyson

Should, Vocational, Subjects

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

Success, Age, Digital, Facebook, Hard

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

Racing, Exciting, Aircraft, Thing

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. James Dyson

Love, Great, People, Doing, Hand, Things

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

Robots, Better, Clean, Person, Than, Our

People buy products if they're better. James Dyson

People, Better, Products, Buy

People will make leaps of faith and get excited by your product if you just get it in front of them. James Dyson

Faith, People, You, Will, Product, Just

So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want. James Dyson

Technology, People, Better, Think, Want

When you say 'design,' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything. James Dyson

Me, Design, You, Looks, Say, Everything

I'm not a businessman. James Dyson

We have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of money. James Dyson

Change, Culture, Money, Wealth, You, Try

Reality TV is anything but. James Dyson

Reality, Anything, Reality TV, TV

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