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Life is a mountain of solvable problems and I enjoy that.

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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Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.
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The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.
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I learned that the moment you want to slow down is the moment you should accelerate.
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Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.
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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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Anger is a good motivator.
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Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.
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I just want things to work properly.
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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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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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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 think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.
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Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.
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You need a stubborn belief in an idea in order to see it realised.
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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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Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they think with their hands and their brains. They're experts in design, engineering and business.
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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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I just think things should work properly.
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Fear is always a good motivator.
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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
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