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Quote card: I made 5,127 prototypes of my vacuum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures.
“I made 5,127 prototypes of my vacuum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures.”

James Dyson, interview in Fast Company (2007). He told the story at length in his book Against the Odds (1997).

Your first price list, your first flyer and your first website will be wrong. Change one thing at a time and keep the version that works.

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