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Boldness in Business Person of the Year: Sir James Dyson
- dfee 9y ago> Patience is a quality people familiar with Sir James credit him with, exemplified by the five years and 5,127 prototypes it took to perfect his bagless vacuum cleaner. This is partly thanks to the nature of his company, family-owned with no external shareholders to satisfy. It also reflects a perfectionism he has inculcated in the organisation. > “[Sir Frank Whittle] really taught me everything about what it was to be an engineer and entrepreneur. He never did any so-called market research. He just did what he thought was right from an engineering and product perspective.”
- joefarish 9y agoIf anyone is interested in learning more about Sir James Dyson there is a good interview with Dyson on NPR's "How I built this" https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=584331881 https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...