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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Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.
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All our engineers are designers and all our designers are engineers.
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Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.
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Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.
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Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.
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Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.
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In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
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My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.