162 Quotes by James Dyson

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

My interest in film is sort of catholic – apart from science fiction and horror movies, I’ll watch almost everything.

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

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

What I’ve learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you’re hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.

Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that’s completely inaccessible.

In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn’t work well.

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.

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