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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Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.
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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.
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I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.
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I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.
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I was frustrated as a child when I had to use a vacuum. It had a screaming noise and the smell of stale dog and a lack of performance.
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I've fought court battles over my inventions before.
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If robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person.
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Reality TV is anything but.
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We have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of money
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If you can't be unconventional, be obtuse. Be deliberately obtuse, because there are 5 billion people out there thinking in train tracks, and thinking what they have been taught to think.
Fear is always a good motivator.
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Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.
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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.