James Dyson Quotes

I made 5,127 prototypes of my vaccum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from each one. That’s how I came up with a solution. So I don’t mind failure.

What I've learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you're hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You never learn from success.

Everyone gets knocked back, no one rises smoothly to the top without hindrance. The ones who succeed are those who say, right, let’s give it another go.

Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.

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.

In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well.

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.

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

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

Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.

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

Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.

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

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

[M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the creative industries.

Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.

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

I learned that the moment you want to slow down is the moment you should accelerate.

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

Beauty can come in strange forms.

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.

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

One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.

After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology

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

There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.

Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.

All our engineers are designers and all our designers are engineers.

I just want things to work properly.

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.

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

I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.

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.

If you can't be unconventional, be obtuse. Be deliberately obtuse, because there are 5 billion people out there thinking in train tracks, and thinking what they have been taught to think.

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

[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.

Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.

Success is made of 99% failure.

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

There's nothing wrong with things taking time.

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.

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

Anger is a good motivator.

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

The key to success is failure… Success is made of 99 percent failure.

The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.

When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had.

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

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