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
technology needs investors
We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.
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When I escaped to art school it was a Mini that took me there.
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The Mini was cheap to run, economical to build and perfect for nipping about town.
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Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.
sexy thinking issues
The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.
take-time
There's nothing wrong with things taking time.
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If you really want to improve technology, if you want things to work better and be better, you've got to protect the person who spends a lot of effort, money, and time developing that new technology.
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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.
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Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.
past selling-things trying
In the past, the U.K. got away with selling things that weren't unusual. Now it's no use trying to export without having something that's unusual and better.
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The way the world is going, it's technology driven. And it isn't just driven by the old super powers, it's driven by the far east and new emerging economies.
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The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.
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The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.