Quotes by James Dyson

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

In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesnt work well.

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

Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.

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

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

Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and youll be very highly paid once youve got them.

Britains great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and were not using it.

If you invent something, youre doing a creative act. Its like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. Its years of your life, its your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.

Theres nothing wrong with things taking time.

When you say design, everybody thinks of magazine pages. So its an emotive word. Everybody thinks its how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything.

I dont design down to a price.

Im not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.

I dont particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.

Beauty can come in strange forms.

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

If you really want to improve technology, if you want things to work better and be better, youve got to protect the person who spends a lot of effort, money, and time developing that new technology.

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