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We have to change our culture so you can create wealth from making things and don't just try to make money out of money

James Dyson

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James Dyson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 2
Designer
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Norfolk
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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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Anger is a good motivator.
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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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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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