James Dyson
Life is a mountain of solvable problems and I enjoy that.Collection: Mountain
I learned that the moment you want to slow down is the moment you should accelerate.Collection: Want
After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technologyCollection: Technology
Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.Collection: Technology
Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they think with their hands and their brains. They're experts in design, engineering and business.Collection: Thinking
If you want to do something different, you’re going to come up against a lot of naysayers.Collection: Different
It's the unlikely juxtaposition of creativity and logic which causes the wooliness and confusion around the term 'innovation'. Everybody wants to be innovative; many companies and ideas are proclaimed to be innovative and no one doubts that innovation is a money spinner. And, thus, we are all looking for the magic formula. Well, here you go: Creativity + Iterative Development = Innovation.Collection: Creativity
All our engineers are designers and all our designers are engineers.Collection: Designer
Exactly 5,126 attempts to make the first bagless vacuum cleaner were failures-some catastrophic disappointments, some minor defects. It took 15 years. Prototype 5,127 was the success ... Failure is painful, but it spurs on improvement like nothing else.Collection: Disappointment
There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.Collection: Persistence
A lot of people give up when the world seems to be against them, but that's the point when you should push a little harder. I use the analogy of running a race. It seems as though you can’t carry on, but if you just get through the pain barrier, you'll see the end and be okay. Often, just around the corner is where the solution will happen.Collection: Running
[M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the creative industries.Collection: Creativity
The important thing is to learn from mistakes - something graduates are adept at. Our graduate engineers are working on new technology - from uncharted applications for our digital motor, to a new take on the hand dryer. With an unhindered mind, nothing is off limits.Collection: Mistake
The key to success is failure… Success is made of 99 percent failure.Collection: Keys
[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.Collection: Home
Most robotic vacuum cleaners don't see their environment, have little suction, and don't clean properly. They are gimmicks. We've been developing a unique 360 vision system that lets our robot see where it is, where it has been, and where it is yet to clean. Vision, combined with our high speed digital motor and cyclone technology, is the key to achieving a high performing robot vacuum - a genuine labor saving device.Collection: Unique
I just think things should work properly.Collection: Thinking
In the digital age of "overnight" success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.Collection: Age
Hire inexperience. This year we plan to hire 200 engineers - half of whom are recent grads. Young people are not burdened by years of experience. They haven't learned - or been told - what is right or wrong. With engineering, there is no tried and tested path. You try, and fail, and fix, and fail again.Collection: Engineering
We’re taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people haven’t, you need to do things the wrong way. Initiate a failure by doing something that’s very silly, unthinkable, naughty, dangerous. Watching why that fails can take you on a completely different path. It’s exciting, actually. To me, solving problems is a bit like a drug. You’re on it, and you can’t get off.Collection: Silly
We have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of moneyCollection: Business
I just want things to work properly.Collection: Want
Failure is so much more interesting because you learn from it. That's what we should be teaching children at school, that being successful the first time, there's nothing in it. There's no interest, you learn nothing actually.Collection: Success
In the digital age of ‘overnight’ success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.Collection: Stories