Exactly 5,126 attempts to make the first bagless vacuum cleaner were failures-some catastrophic disappointments, some minor defects. It … - James Dyson

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James Dyson

Exactly 5,126 attempts to make the first bagless vacuum cleaner were failures-some catastrophic disappointments, some minor defects. It took 15 years. Prototype 5,127 was the success. . . Failure is painful, but it spurs on improvement like nothing else.

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Hire inexperience. This year we plan to hire 200 engineers - half of whom are recent grads. Young people are not burdened by years of experience. They haven't learned - or been told - what is right or wrong. With engineering, there is no tried and tested path. You try, and fail, and fix, and fail again.

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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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There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.

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Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.

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Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.

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