James Dyson

“Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.”

“I've fought court battles over my inventions before.”

“In the past, the U.K. got away with selling things that weren't unusual. Now it's no use trying to export without having something that's unusual and better.”

“Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.”

“The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.”

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

“There's nothing wrong with things taking time.”

“Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.”

“I grew up running miles of the Norfolk coastline. I'd think nothing of a six-mile run before breakfast. I still run, though not as far and not before muesli.”

“Insurance companies don't make anything.”

“The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.”

“When you can't compete on cost, compete on quality.”

“Reality TV is anything but.”

“I think if you have to pay for your education, you worry very seriously about you're going to do when you've got your degree.”

“We should learn to live more with our climate and rely less on electricity to alter our climate.”

“Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.”

“When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had.”

“Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are.”

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

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