James Dyson
43 quotes
Biography
"In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well."
"In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked."
"I think things that work well start to look good as well."
"Anger is a good motivator."
"Beauty can come in strange forms."
"Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving."
"I don't do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it's a logical business decision."
"Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us."
"Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it."
"I don't design down to a price."
"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."
"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."
"I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it."
"Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products."
"Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education."
"I think if you have to pay for your education, you worry very seriously about you're going to do when you've got your degree."
"Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success."
"Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something."
"People will make leaps of faith and get excited by your product if you just get it in front of them."
"Fear is always a good motivator."
"When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important."
"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."
"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."
"My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything."
"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."