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James Dyson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 2
Designer
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Norfolk
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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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Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.
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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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Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.
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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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You need a stubborn belief in an idea in order to see it realised.
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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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If robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person.
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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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If you want to do something different, you’re going to come up against a lot of naysayers.
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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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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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I've fought court battles over my inventions before.
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Enjoy failure and learn from it. You never learn from success.
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One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.
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I just want things to work properly.
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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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[M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the creative industries.
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Beauty can come in strange forms.
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