Quotes from 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.

We should learn to live more with our climate and rely less on electricity to alter our climate.

It is an extreme perversion of capitalism if you can trade in something before you have even paid for it.

China can and will be an invaluable trading partner to both the U.S. and the U.K.

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

Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are.

Insurance companies don't make anything.

What I often do is just think of a completely obtuse thing to do, almost the wrong thing to do. That often works because you start a different approach, something no one has tried.

You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.

I've fought court battles over my inventions before.

As a modern employer you have to treat people well.

Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.

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.

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

Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don't need great big vacuums anymore.

As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.

Some people are academically inclined, some vocationally and we shouldn't penalise the latter.

I grew up running miles of the Norfolk coastline. I'd think nothing of a six-mile run before breakfast. I still run, though not as far and not before muesli.

One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.

Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.

Cordless vacuums are designed for quick jobs, but you need enough power to do the job; you don't want the power waning over time.

The U.S. is the biggest investor in research and development in the world. It has the best universities. Keeping them supplied with the best talent is essential.

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

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