Quotes by James Dyson

About James Dyson:

Sir James Dyson is 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.
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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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Anger is a good motivator.

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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.

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The U.S. is the biggest investor in research and development in the world. It has the best universities. Keeping them supplied with the best talent is essential.

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Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.

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Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.

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Beauty can come in strange forms.

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I don't do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it's a logical business decision.

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Business is constantly changing, constantly evolving.

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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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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.

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When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.

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China has all the advantages in the world. But it doesn't have a history of free thinking, risk-taking pioneers - the kind of people the U.S. is built upon.

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Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.

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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.

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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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Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

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I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.

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I don't design down to a price.

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When you say 'design,' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything.

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Author Bio

  • NameJames Dyson
  • DescriptionBritish inventor, industrial designer and founder of the Dyson company
  • AliasesSir James Dyson
  • BornMay 2, 1947
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionInventor; Industrial Designer
  • AwardsPrince Philip Designers Prize