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 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.
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.
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.
thinking engineering hands
Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they think with their hands and their brains. They're experts in design, engineering and business.
math technology engineering
I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.
engineering agency creative
[M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the creative industries.
engineering design natural
Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.
engineering government long
Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.
enjoy failure learn
Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.
art escaped mini school took
When I escaped to art school it was a Mini that took me there.
build cheap economical mini perfect
The Mini was cheap to run, economical to build and perfect for nipping about town.
sexy thinking issues
The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.
technology needs investors
We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.