James Dyson Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Goodness, I know nothing about nuclear energy.”

“I was frustrated as a child when I had to use a vacuum. It had a screaming noise and the smell of stale dog and a lack of performance.”

“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.”