James Dyson

James Dyson

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Few British inventors and businessmans have been quoted as widely as James Dyson (b. 1947), whose insights reach well beyond their original context. Beyond the inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner, which works on the principle of cyclonic separation, James Dyson proved equally skilled at capturing ideas in a sentence or two. 38 of James Dyson's sharpest quotes live here, spanning themes of Technology, Science, Design, Success, and Government. Among their most shared lines: "Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success."

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

— James Dyson

Design

All Quotes by James Dyson

“I hate science fiction.”

— James Dyson

Science

“The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.”

— James Dyson

Technology

“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.”

— James Dyson

Education

“Beauty can come in strange forms.”

— James Dyson

Beauty

“I don't design down to a price.”

— James Dyson

Design

“The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.”

— James Dyson

Science

“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

Design

“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.”

— James Dyson

Design

“In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.”

— James Dyson

Age

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

— James Dyson

Design

“My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.”

— James Dyson

Movies

“Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.”

— James Dyson

Business

“Anger is a good motivator.”

— James Dyson

Anger

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

— James Dyson

Design

“Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.”

— James Dyson

Failure

“When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.”

— James Dyson

Government

“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

Government

“The way the world is going, it's technology driven. And it isn't just driven by the old super powers, it's driven by the far east and new emerging economies.”

— James Dyson

Technology

“Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.”

— James Dyson

Education

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

— James Dyson

Design