James Dyson

I like living on the edge.

— James Dyson

People buy products if they're better.

— James Dyson

Beauty can come in strange forms.

— James Dyson

I don't believe in brands.

— James Dyson

Well, air-conditioning is not a good thing.

— James Dyson

I'm not a businessman.

— James Dyson

I hate science fiction.

— James Dyson

Insurance companies don't make anything.

— James Dyson

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

— James Dyson

Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.

— James Dyson

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

— James Dyson

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

— James Dyson

We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.

— James Dyson

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

— James Dyson

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

— James Dyson

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

— James Dyson

I think if you have to pay for your education, you worry very seriously about you're going to do when you've got…

— James Dyson

I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once…

— James Dyson

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

— James Dyson

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

— James Dyson

What I've learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you're hurting like crazy and you want to…

— James Dyson

At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns…

— James Dyson

I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.

— James Dyson

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

— James Dyson

I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside…

— James Dyson

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

— James Dyson

I've obviously used fans - I wouldn't say all my life, because we couldn't afford them when I was young, but from…

— James Dyson

Failure is so much more interesting because you learn from it. That's what we should be teaching children at school, that being…

— James Dyson

I made 5,127 prototypes of my vaccum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from each one.…

— James Dyson

When you say 'design,' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for…

— James Dyson

If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and…

— James Dyson

I imported the first Mac into England in 1984; you know, the beige box. I imported what I think were the first…

— James Dyson

It's the unlikely juxtaposition of creativity and logic which causes the wooliness and confusion around the term 'innovation'. Everybody wants to be…

— James Dyson

We’re taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people haven’t, you need to…

— James Dyson

Most robotic vacuum cleaners don't see their environment, have little suction, and don't clean properly. They are gimmicks. We've been developing a…

— James Dyson

I don't design down to a price.

— James Dyson

I just think things should work properly

— James Dyson

I just want things to work properly.

— James Dyson

Success is made of 99% failure.

— James Dyson

Emerging markets are hugely important.

— James Dyson