Failure is so much more interesting because you learn from it. That's what we should be teaching children at school, that being successful the first time, there's nothing in it. There's no interest, you learn nothing actually.

The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.

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.

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

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

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

In the past, the U.K. got away with selling things that weren't unusual. Now it's no use trying to export without having something that's unusual and better.