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I just think things should work properly.

James Dyson

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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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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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I just want things to work properly.
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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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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 learned that the moment you want to slow down is the moment you should accelerate.
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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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In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well.
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Life is a mountain of solvable problems and I enjoy that.
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One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.
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Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.
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We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.
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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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In the digital age of overnight success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
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Don't listen to experts.
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A lot of people give up when the world seems to be against them, but that's the point when you should push a little harder. I use the analogy of running a race. It seems as though you can’t carry on, but if you just get through the pain barrier, you'll see the end and be okay. Often, just around the corner is where the solution will happen.
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Beauty can come in strange forms.
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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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Anger is a good motivator.
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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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