Explore Quotes by James Dyson

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

Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.

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

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

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.

Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.

Anger is a good motivator.

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

An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.

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.

I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.

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

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

Emerging markets are hugely important.

As a modern employer you have to treat people well.

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

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

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.

Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.

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

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.