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Emerging markets are hugely important.

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James Dyson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 2
Designer
Entrepreneur
Farmer
Industrial Designer
Inventor
Cromer
Norfolk
Sir James Dyson
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Emerging
Markets
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After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology
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If you can't be unconventional, be obtuse. Be deliberately obtuse, because there are 5 billion people out there thinking in train tracks, and thinking what they have been taught to think.
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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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We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.
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Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.
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I've obviously used fans - I wouldn't say all my life, because we couldn't afford them when I was young, but from my 20s and onwards we've had to use fans. And I've always loathed them. Everything about them. The way you adjust them, getting them at the angle you want. Carrying them. Cleaning them. The danger of putting your finger in them.
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If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.
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Some of the best inventive moments are born out of 'wrong thinking'. Most people start with the right way so they all follow the same path. The wrong way will lead to mistakes from which you can learn and create new discoveries-the kind of original ideas that come to life when we dare to be different, keep an open mind, and have no fear of failure.
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Don't listen to experts.
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Cordless vacuums are designed for quick jobs, but you need enough power to do the job you don't want the power waning over time.
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In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well.
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[M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the creative industries.
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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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I've fought court battles over my inventions before.
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One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.
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