He Failed 5,126 Times to Succeed Once Meet James Dyson, the man who turned failure into his greatest invention. For 15 long years, Dyson worked alone in his small workshop, building one prototype after another 5,126 failed attempts. Friends doubted him, investors ignored him, and the world laughed at his “pointless obsession” with improving the vacuum cleaner. But Dyson believed every failure brought him one step closer to success. On his 5,127th attempt, he finally created the world’s first bag