James Dyson Want Quotations

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

Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.

I've obviously used fans - I wouldn't say all my life, because we couldn't afford them when I was young, but from my 20s and onwards we've had to use fans. And I've always loathed them. Everything about them. The way you adjust them, getting them at the angle you want. Carrying them. Cleaning them. The danger of putting your finger in them.

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

Cordless vacuums are designed for quick jobs, but you need enough power to do the job; you don't want the power waning over time.

I learned that the moment you want to slow down is the moment you should accelerate.

If you want to do something different, you’re going to come up against a lot of naysayers.

I just want things to work properly.