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In the digital age of overnight success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

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James Dyson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 2
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Norfolk
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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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One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.
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After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology
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You need a stubborn belief in an idea in order to see it realised.
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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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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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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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If you really want to improve technology, if you want things to work better and be better, you've got to protect the person who spends a lot of effort, money, and time developing that new technology.
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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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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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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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[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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Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.
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Fear is always a good motivator.
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Life is a mountain of solvable problems and I enjoy that.
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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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I learned that the moment you want to slow down is the moment you should accelerate.
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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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Don't listen to experts.
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The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.
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