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Whether you&#39;re an inventor, an entrepreneur, someone trying to find a job, or just seeking make headway in the job you&#39;re already in, chances are that you can learn a thing or two from James Dyson. Provided you know who he is, of course: whether the name rings a bell or not, you&#39;ve likely seen him advertising the vacuum cleaner that bears his moniker (you know: the one with the ball in the bottom). His company&#39;s also behind the &lt;i&gt;Airblade&lt;/i&gt;, one of them new-fangled hand dryers that, as Dyson more or less says in the video below, scrapes water off your hands with a concentrated jet of air, rather than trying to evaporate it off with warm air. More interestingly, Dyson is a man who admits to having failed over and over and over again in his pursuit of success. Even his company&#39;s hand dryer, he says, is the result of many failed attempts to invent something else, although he won&#39;t specify what--but the important thing is that the idea to turn the air jet from the failed project into a hand dryer only came when he and his staff were playing around after failing. To get that lesson in Dyson&#39;s owns words (which I&#39;d recommend—he tells it better!), plus more of his thoughts on the benefits of failing, check out the full video, courtesy of &lt;i&gt;The Wall Street Journal&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;&lt;object id=&quot;wsj_fp&quot; width=&quot;512&quot; height=&quot;363&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://s.wsj.net/media/swf/main.swf&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowscriptaccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;flashvars&quot; value=&quot;videoGUID={31157CDD-7DBF-4B06-822D-55CC0E4CA283}&amp;playerid=1000&amp;plyMediaEnabled=1&amp;configURL=http://wsj.vo.llnwd.net/o28/players/&amp;autoStart=false&quot; base=&quot;http://s.wsj.net/media/swf/&quot; name=&quot;popupflashPlayer&quot;&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://s.wsj.net/media/swf/main.swf&quot; bgcolor=&quot;#FFFFFF&quot; flashvars=&quot;videoGUID={31157CDD-7DBF-4B06-822D-55CC0E4CA283}&amp;playerid=1000&amp;plyMediaEnabled=1&amp;configURL=http://wsj.vo.llnwd.net/o28/players/&amp;autoStart=false&quot; base=&quot;http://s.wsj.net/media/swf/&quot; name=&quot;popupflashPlayer&quot; width=&quot;512&quot; height=&quot;363&quot; seamlesstabbing=&quot;false&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; swliveconnect=&quot;true&quot; pluginspage=&quot;http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&quot;&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;--Posted by Phil Stott, Associate Producer, Web Content&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;

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