Quotes from James Dyson

I myself scraped seven poor passes at O-level.

We should have A-levels in vocational subjects.

I own every share of my company, and I don't want to sell any of it.

When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had.

An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.

I don't believe in brands.

I'm not a businessman.

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.

Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.

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

Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.

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

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

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

I don't design down to a price.

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

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.

Anger is a good motivator.

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

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.

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

Beauty can come in strange forms.