James Dyson

“I don't do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it's a logical business decision.”

“People buy products if they're better.”

“As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.”

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

“Emerging markets are hugely important.”

“Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.”

“Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that.”

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

“Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.”

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

“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.”

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

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