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You need a stubborn belief in an idea in order to see it realised.

James Dyson

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James Dyson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 2
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Norfolk
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Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.
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I just think things should work properly.
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I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.
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Life is a mountain of solvable problems and I enjoy that.
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Beauty can come in strange forms.
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Enjoy failure and learn from it. You never learn from success.
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The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.
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I just want things to work properly.
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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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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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I've fought court battles over my inventions before.
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