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
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The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.
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Life is a mountain of solvable problems and I enjoy that.
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After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology
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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.
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China can and will be an invaluable trading partner to both the U.S. and the U.K.
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Beauty can come in strange forms.
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If you want to do something different, you’re going to come up against a lot of naysayers.
technology needs characteristics
Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.
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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.
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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.
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Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.
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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.
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So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.