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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
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Norfolk
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Emerging markets are hugely important.
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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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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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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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Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.
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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've fought court battles over my inventions before.
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Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.
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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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In the digital age of overnight success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
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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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