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
mistake important teach
Successes teach you nothing. Failures teach you everything. Making mistakes is the most important thing you can do.
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.
designer engineers
All our engineers are designers and all our designers are engineers.
engineering years people
Hire inexperience. This year we plan to hire 200 engineers - half of whom are recent grads. Young people are not burdened by years of experience. They haven't learned - or been told - what is right or wrong. With engineering, there is no tried and tested path. You try, and fail, and fix, and fail again.
mistake technology hands
The important thing is to learn from mistakes - something graduates are adept at. Our graduate engineers are working on new technology - from uncharted applications for our digital motor, to a new take on the hand dryer. With an unhindered mind, nothing is off limits.
made
Success is made of 99% failure.
next great-inventions moments
Stumbling upon the next great invention in an 'ah-ha!' moment is a myth.
technology needs characteristics
Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.
strange form
Beauty can come in strange forms.
keys key-to-success made
The key to success is failure… Success is made of 99 percent failure.
creativity ideas confusion
It's the unlikely juxtaposition of creativity and logic which causes the wooliness and confusion around the term 'innovation'. Everybody wants to be innovative; many companies and ideas are proclaimed to be innovative and no one doubts that innovation is a money spinner. And, thus, we are all looking for the magic formula. Well, here you go: Creativity + Iterative Development = Innovation.
heart writing emotional
If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.
silly naughty people
We’re taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people haven’t, you need to do things the wrong way. Initiate a failure by doing something that’s very silly, unthinkable, naughty, dangerous. Watching why that fails can take you on a completely different path. It’s exciting, actually. To me, solving problems is a bit like a drug. You’re on it, and you can’t get off.
want moments slow-down
I learned that the moment you want to slow down is the moment you should accelerate.