He is worth an estimated £2.6billion, has plans to double his workforce in the West and has given millions of pounds to good causes, but Sir James Dyson has described his life as "99 per cent failure".
The man who invented the ball-barrow, the bag-less vacuum cleaner, the blade-less fan and the two-drum washing machine, said failing was much more interesting that succeeding, and his life had been built around it.
Answering a question about his strategy for dealing with failure, posed by Business Week magazine in the United States, Sir James said: "I mean, 99 per cent of my life is failure, because we're building prototypes all the time.
"We're trying out ideas, and they all fail. You then have to try and make it work, and that requires hundreds or thousands of prototypes – all of which are failures – until you get the one success. So we're totally used to failure. Failure's fascinating. It's much more interesting than success. And it's what, we build our lives on."
Earlier this year, Dyson revealed plans to increase its army of engineers, researchers and inventors by 700 in the next couple of years at its ideas factory in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, and plans to further bolster its workforce by as much as 3,000 in the next ten years.
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