James Dyson Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

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

“Some people are academically inclined, some vocationally and we shouldn't penalise the latter.”

“If you really want to improve technology, if you want things to work better and be better, you've got to protect the person who spends a lot of effort, money, and time developing that new technology.”

“Now, we don't teach children in schools to be creative. We don't teach them to experiment. We want them to fill in the right answer, tick the right answer in the box.”

“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.”

“Anger is a good motivator.”

“Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.”

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

“Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.”

“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.”