James Dyson People Quotations

When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.

I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.

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

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

If you can't be unconventional, be obtuse. Be deliberately obtuse, because there are 5 billion people out there thinking in train tracks, and thinking what they have been taught to think.

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

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.

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.

As a modern employer you have to treat people well.