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James Dyson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 2
Designer
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Norfolk
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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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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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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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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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Fear is always a good motivator.
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Enjoy failure and learn from it. You never learn from success.
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Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.
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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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Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.
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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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China can and will be an invaluable trading partner to both the U.S. and the U.K.
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Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.
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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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Anger is a good motivator.
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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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[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've obviously used fans - I wouldn't say all my life, because we couldn't afford them when I was young, but from my 20s and onwards we've had to use fans. And I've always loathed them. Everything about them. The way you adjust them, getting them at the angle you want. Carrying them. Cleaning them. The danger of putting your finger in them.
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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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I just think things should work properly.
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