162 Quotes by James Dyson

I'm not a businessman.

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

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

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

We have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of money.

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

Now, we don't teach children in schools to be creative. We don't teach them to experiment. We want them to fill in the right answer, tick the right answer in the box.

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.

People buy products if they're better.