162 Quotes by James Dyson

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

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

Emerging markets are hugely important.

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

Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.

At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.

Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.

I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.

I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.