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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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James Dyson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 2
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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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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 robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person.
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You need a stubborn belief in an idea in order to see it realised.
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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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Life is a mountain of solvable problems and I enjoy that.
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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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I learned that the moment you want to slow down is the moment you should accelerate.
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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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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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An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.
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