James Dyson > Quotes

“What I've learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you're hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.”
― James Dyson

“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.”
― James Dyson

“In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well.”
― James Dyson

“Invention is often more about endurance and patient observation than brainwaves.”
― James Dyson, Invention: A Life of Learning through Failure

“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.”
― James Dyson, Against the Odds: An Autobiography

“Snow found the British system of education guilty. Since the Victorian era, science had been overshadowed in schools by humanities and especially by the teaching of Greek and Latin. Where German and American schools valued science and technology, we in Britain tended to look down on these subjects, and on industry, as somehow grubby, or, if not grubby, then somehow uncultured and even anti-intellectual. I’m afraid, C. P. Snow, that nothing much has changed. If anything, science and engineering are even more looked-down-on today.”
― James Dyson, Invention: A Life of Learning through Failure

“In 1959, the scientist and novelist C. P. Snow gave a famous lecture, ‘The Two Cultures’, on the ever-growing and unhealthy divide he saw between science and the humanities.”
― James Dyson, Invention: A Life of Learning through Failure

“This, I fundamentally believe, is why scientists and engineers will do more than politicians and activists to solve today’s environmental problems. They have more than words. They have solutions.”
― James Dyson, Invention: A Life of Learning through Failure

“I need to live on the knife’s edge all the time. I like living, for the moment, in danger.”
― James Dyson