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
sexy thinking issues
The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.
thinking government people
When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.
thinking four firsts
I imported the first Mac into England in 1984; you know, the beige box. I imported what I think were the first four that came into England. I never opened the instruction manual. That was the best thing about it.
thinking research-and-development ideas
If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way.
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.
technology thinking people
So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.
thinking information publishing
I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.
thinking people track
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.
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.
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.
thinking should
I just think things should work properly
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.