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 compet….

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

Fear is always a good motivator..

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 ….

Success is made of 99% failure..

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

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

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

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 ….

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 solut….

Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they think with their hands an….

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

Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward..

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 ….

The important thing is to learn from mistakes - something graduates are adept at. Our graduate engineers are working on new technology - from unchart….

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

Exactly 5,126 attempts to make the first bagless vacuum cleaner were failures-some catastrophic disappointments, some minor defects. It took 15 years….

Don't listen to experts..

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….

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

As a modern employer you have to treat people well..