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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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James Dyson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 2
Designer
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Cromer
Norfolk
Sir James Dyson
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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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China can and will be an invaluable trading partner to both the U.S. and the U.K.
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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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Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.
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I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.
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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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The way the world is going, it's technology driven. And it isn't just driven by the old super powers, it's driven by the far east and new emerging economies.
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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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Fear is always a good motivator.
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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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Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.
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Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.
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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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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 my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.
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After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology
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I made 5,127 prototypes of my vaccum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from each one. That’s how I came up with a solution. So I don’t mind failure.
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The important thing is to learn from mistakes - something graduates are adept at. Our graduate engineers are working on new technology - from uncharted applications for our digital motor, to a new take on the hand dryer. With an unhindered mind, nothing is off limits.
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If robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person.
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Don't listen to experts.
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