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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Goodness, I know nothing about nuclear energy.

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As a modern employer you have to treat people well.

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The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.

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We should have A-levels in vocational subjects.

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Emerging markets are hugely important.

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The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.

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Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.

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An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.

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Everybody recognizes that if you can make very efficient electric motors, you can make a quantum leap forward.

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I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.

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Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.

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If you want to do something different, you're going to come up against a lot of naysayers.

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Reality TV is anything but.

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Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are.

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You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.

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When you can't compete on cost, compete on quality.

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I don't believe in brands.

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I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.

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I myself scraped seven poor passes at O-level.

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Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.

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China can and will be an invaluable trading partner to both the U.S. and the U.K.

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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