James Dyson
James Dyson
Sir James Dyson OM CBE FRS FREngis a British inventor, industrial designer and founder of the Dyson company. He is best known as the inventor of the Dual Cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner, which works on the principle of cyclonic separation. According to the Sunday Times Rich List 2013, his net worth in 2013 was £3 billion...
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth2 May 1947
persistence looks ends
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.
mistake important teach
Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.
mistake thinking discovery
Some of the best inventive moments are born out of 'wrong thinking'. Most people start with the right way so they all follow the same path. The wrong way will lead to mistakes from which you can learn and create new discoveries-the kind of original ideas that come to life when we dare to be different, keep an open mind, and have no fear of failure.
technology ideas design
Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.
disappointment years firsts
Exactly 5,126 attempts to make the first bagless vacuum cleaner were failures-some catastrophic disappointments, some minor defects. It took 15 years. Prototype 5,127 was the success ... Failure is painful, but it spurs on improvement like nothing else.
want programming
I just want things to work properly.
want moments slow-down
I learned that the moment you want to slow down is the moment you should accelerate.
technology thinking people
So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.
math technology engineering
I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.
take-time
There's nothing wrong with things taking time.
technology east world
The way the world is going, it's technology driven. And it isn't just driven by the old super powers, it's driven by the far east and new emerging economies.
technology effort want
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.
technology needs investors
We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.
problem solve engineers
As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.