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.
I made 5,127 prototypes of my vaccum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from each one. That’s how I came up with a solution. So I don’t mind failure.
Enjoy failure and learn from it. You never learn from success.
Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that’s completely inaccessible.
The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you’re totally free.
Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.
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.
Everyone gets knocked back, no one rises smoothly to the top without hindrance. The ones who succeed are those who say, right, let’s give it another go.
In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn’t work well.
Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.
Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.
Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.
Britain’s great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we’re not using it.
Life is a mountain of solvable problems and I enjoy that.
One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.