James Dyson was born in Norfolk in 1947 and studied at the Royal College of Art in London, before joining Rotork to engineer and make the Sea Truck, a high-speed flat-bottomed boat, with Jeremy Fry. Best known for his revolutionary cyclonic vacuum cleaner, his products have been sold around the world, renowned for their innovative technology, design, and efficiency. James believes that engineers can improve the world and he helps them to do so through the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology, The James Dyson Foundation, and the annual James Dyson Award.
"Whatever problem Mr. Dyson has tackled, he has sought to come up
with a product that is paradigm-shifting....The bulk of this new
book focuses on Mr. Dyson's inventing, promoting, manufacturing and
selling products beyond the upright vacuum....in some detail and
with plenty of passion.... Stories of consumer products and gadgets
drive Mr. Dyson's narrative forward, but parallel to describing the
process of inventing, Mr. Dyson tells a story of the struggles of
entrepreneurship."
--Wall Street Journal "An entertaining and inspiring memoir by a
fellow who's nearly impossible to pigeonhole--and good thing,
too....The British inventor and vacuum-cleaner magnate delivers a
paean to creativity and creation....His overarching point is very
well taken: He makes a powerful argument that our educational
systems are not giving sufficient attention to fostering creativity
and the independent spirit required of the inventor, thereby
stifling innovation."
--Kirkus Reviews, starred review "[Dyson's] written a book called
Invention, but that's the publisher's title. He wanted to call it
Failure because what we've all forgotten in our modern-day blame
culture is that no achievement is possible without foul-ups. Every
successful invention is the result of trial and error, with the
emphasis on error...the central message in his book is that there
are no shortcuts to success."
--Sunday Times of London "This is not a book about business, but
rather education, mentorship, and self-reliance. Invention: A Life
celebrates the unknown and encourages stepping into it and
uncovering entrepreneurism."
--Women Love Tech "Dyson, like other great entrepreneurs, finds joy
in failing because each experiment teaches him something he can use
to reinvent a product or category. In fact, the words "failure" and
"fail" appear over 50 times throughout Dyson's book...Dyson's
famous 5,126 failures offer valuable lessons in storytelling for
all entrepreneurs and business owners."
--Inc.com "In his book Invention: A Life, Dyson, explains not just
how he built his empire but how his life is as much about failure
as it is about success--and why that makes him happy."
--Air Mail
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