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James Dyson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 2
Designer
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Norfolk
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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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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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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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Beauty can come in strange forms.
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We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.
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I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.
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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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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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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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Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.
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Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.
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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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I've fought court battles over my inventions before.
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Fear is always a good motivator.
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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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If you want to do something different, you’re going to come up against a lot of naysayers.
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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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Enjoy failure and learn from it. You never learn from success.
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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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