And I Quote
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This came around in email and is up on this site as a reminder to me
whenever the voices of naysayers are just a little too loud in my head.
I now make it public with the hope that you too are inspired
to never stop believing in yourselves and your dreams...

FAMOUS PREDICTIONS .... BY EXPERTS INSIDE THE BIZ ...

"You'd better learn secretarial work or else get married"
Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modeling Agency, in 1944
to modeling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, better known to us as Marilyn Monroe.


"You ain't goin' nowhere son. You ought to go back to drivin' a truck."
Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, 1954, upon firing a singer
after one performance. The singer? Elvis Presley.

"Who wants to hear actors talk?"

--H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.

"We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out."

--Decca executive, 1962, after turning down the Beatles.

"While theoretically and technically television may be feasible,
commercially and financially it is an impossibility."

--Lee DeForest, inventor

"I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's
falling on his face and not Gary Cooper."

--Gary Cooper, after turning down
the lead role in Gone With The Wind.

AND FROM JUST ABOUT EVERYWHERE ELSE TOO!!

"Everything that can be invented has been invented."

--Charles H. Duell, Office of Patents, 1899

"That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?"
President Rutherford Hayes, after making a demonstration call with Alexander
Graham Bell's new-fangled invention, the telephone.



"There will never be a bigger plane built."

--A Boeing engineer, after the first flight of the 247,
a twin engine plane that carried ten people.

"Ours has been the first, and doubtless to be
the last, to visit this profitless locality."

-- Lt. Joseph Ives after visiting the Grand Canyon in 1861.

"There is not the slightest indication that nuclear
energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that
the atom would have to be shattered at will."

-- Albert Einstein, 1932

"It will be years--not in my time--before
a woman will become Prime Minister."

--Margaret Thatcher, 1974

"With over 50 foreign cars already on sale here, the Japanese auto
industry isn't likely to carve out a big slice of the US market."

--Business Week, August 2, 1968

"Computers may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."

--Popular Mechanics, 1949

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."

--Ken Olson, president of Digital Equipment Corp. 1977

"This telephone' has too many shortcomings to be
seriously considered as a means of communication."

--Western Union memo, 1876

"No imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for
a message sent to nobody in particular?"

--David Sarnoff's associates in response to his
urging investment in the radio in the 1920's.

"Market research reports say America likes crispy cookies,
not soft and chewy cookies like you make."

--Response to Debbi Fields' idea of Mrs. Fields' Cookies

"We don't need you. You haven't got through college yet."

--Hewlett Packard excuse to Steve Jobs, who
founded Apple Computers instead.

"I think there's a world market for about five computers."

--Thomas J. Watson, chairman of the board of IBM.

    "The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives."

    --Admiral William Leahy, U.S. Atomic Bomb Project.

"Airplanes are interesting toys, but they
are of no military value whatsoever."

--Marechal Ferdinand Fock, Professor
of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre

      "Stocks have reached a permanently high plateau."

      --Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929

                "No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy
                is not going to be caught napping."

                --U.S. Secretary of Navy, December 4, 1941

    "Radio has no future. Heavier-than-air flying machines
    are impossible. X-rays will prove to be a hoax."

    --William Thomson, Lord Kelvin English scientist, 1899

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