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
thinking research-and-development ideas
If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way.
thinking engineering people
I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.
home interesting broke
[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.
children teaching school
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.
problem solve engineers
As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.
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.
engineering ideas together
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.
engineering boring treated
Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.
important emerging emerging-markets
Emerging markets are hugely important.
kids arbitrary cheat
Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.
prayer school boys
At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.
electric-motors quantum leap
Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.
thinking information publishing
I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.
entrepreneur retail want
I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.