Britain’s great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we’re not using it. – James Dyson
Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It’s considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true. – James Dyson
Now, we don’t teach children in schools to be creative. We don’t teach them to experiment. We want them to fill in the right answer, tick the right answer in the box. – James Dyson
People will make leaps of faith and get excited by your product if you just get it in front of them. – James Dyson
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. – James Dyson
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. – James Dyson
I was frustrated as a child when I had to use a vacuum. It had a screaming noise and the smell of stale dog and a lack of performance. – James Dyson
I don’t particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box – simplify it. – James Dyson
We should learn to live more with our climate and rely less on electricity to alter our climate. – James Dyson
I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don’t necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs. – James Dyson
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. – 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 science and maths – grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic. – James Dyson
I’m afraid I am tidy, and I have to be because the office is open plan and my glass office door is literally always open. – James Dyson
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. – James Dyson
An inventor’s path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches. – James Dyson
