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."

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

— James Dyson

Computers

All Quotes by 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

Design

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

— James Dyson

Design

“Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.”

— James Dyson

Business

“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

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

— James Dyson

Design

“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

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

— James Dyson

Failure

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

— James Dyson

Technology

“I don't do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it's a logical business decision.”

— James Dyson

Business

“I don't design down to a price.”

— 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

“Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.”

— James Dyson

Failure

“Fear is always a good motivator.”

— James Dyson

Fear

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

— James Dyson

Movies

“Beauty can come in strange forms.”

— James Dyson

Beauty

“So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.”

— James Dyson

Technology

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

— James Dyson

Design

“People will make leaps of faith and get excited by your product if you just get it in front of them.”

— James Dyson

Faith

“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

Technology

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

— James Dyson

Education