This list will make you think twice, funny but scary at the same time...don't ever let go of your dreams!
Taken from Men's Health...
1) "The problem with television is that the people must sit and keep thier eyes glued to a screen: the average American family hasn't time for it."
-New York Times, 1939
2) "I'm sorry, Mr. Kipling, but you just don't know how to use the English language."
-editor of the San Franciso Examiner,
rejecting Regarding Kipling, 1889
3) "With over 50 foreign cars already on sale here, the Japanese auto industry isn't likely to carve out a big slice of the U.S. market."
-Buisness Week, Aug. 2, 1968
4) "A Period novel! About the Civil War! Who needs the Civil War now- who cares?" - Herbert Mayes,
editor of the Pictorial Review, rejecting the prepublication offer to serialize Gone with the Wind
5) I am strongly opposed to Charles going on this Beagle voyage. He is moving away from the Church, drifting irretrievably into a life of sport and idleness."
-Robert Darwin, on his son Charles Darwin
6) "You'd better learn secretarial work or else get married."
-director of Blue Book Modelling Agency, to Marilyn Monroe, 1944
7) "You ain't goin' nowhere, son. You ought to go back to drivin' a truck." - manager of the Grand Ole Opry, firing Elvis Presley after one performance, September 25, 1954
8) "The singer will have to go." - Eric Easton, new manager of Rolling Stones, commenting on Mick Jagger in 1963
9) "I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfacation" when I'm 45."
-Mick Jagger
10) "We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out." Dick Rowe, a manager of Decca Recording Co., rejecting the Beatles, 1962. (When Rowe later told George Harrison that he'd gotten his ass kicked for "turning you lot down," Harrison suggested he sign the Rolling Stones- whom Rowe had never heard of- and he did.)
11) "Ours has been the first, and will doubtless be the last, to visit this profitless locality." - Lt. Joseph Ives, in an offical report, on the Grand Canyon, 1861
12) "The bomb will never go off, and I speak as and expert in explosives." Adm, William Leahy, chief of staff to President Truman, on the atomic bomb, 1945
13) "There is no reason for an individual to have a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, founder of Digital Equipment Co., 1977
This is the best one...
14) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible/"
-Yale management professor, commenting on a paper proposing overnight delivery service;
the student, Fred Smith, went on to found Federal Express
15) "They couldn't hit an elepant at this dist--"
- last words of Gen. John B. Segwick, highly respected Union Commander, at the Battle of Spotsylvanian, 1864
Taken from Men's Health...
1) "The problem with television is that the people must sit and keep thier eyes glued to a screen: the average American family hasn't time for it."
-New York Times, 1939
2) "I'm sorry, Mr. Kipling, but you just don't know how to use the English language."
-editor of the San Franciso Examiner,
rejecting Regarding Kipling, 1889
3) "With over 50 foreign cars already on sale here, the Japanese auto industry isn't likely to carve out a big slice of the U.S. market."
-Buisness Week, Aug. 2, 1968
4) "A Period novel! About the Civil War! Who needs the Civil War now- who cares?" - Herbert Mayes,
editor of the Pictorial Review, rejecting the prepublication offer to serialize Gone with the Wind
5) I am strongly opposed to Charles going on this Beagle voyage. He is moving away from the Church, drifting irretrievably into a life of sport and idleness."
-Robert Darwin, on his son Charles Darwin
6) "You'd better learn secretarial work or else get married."
-director of Blue Book Modelling Agency, to Marilyn Monroe, 1944
7) "You ain't goin' nowhere, son. You ought to go back to drivin' a truck." - manager of the Grand Ole Opry, firing Elvis Presley after one performance, September 25, 1954
8) "The singer will have to go." - Eric Easton, new manager of Rolling Stones, commenting on Mick Jagger in 1963
9) "I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfacation" when I'm 45."
-Mick Jagger
10) "We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out." Dick Rowe, a manager of Decca Recording Co., rejecting the Beatles, 1962. (When Rowe later told George Harrison that he'd gotten his ass kicked for "turning you lot down," Harrison suggested he sign the Rolling Stones- whom Rowe had never heard of- and he did.)
11) "Ours has been the first, and will doubtless be the last, to visit this profitless locality." - Lt. Joseph Ives, in an offical report, on the Grand Canyon, 1861
12) "The bomb will never go off, and I speak as and expert in explosives." Adm, William Leahy, chief of staff to President Truman, on the atomic bomb, 1945
13) "There is no reason for an individual to have a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, founder of Digital Equipment Co., 1977
This is the best one...
14) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible/"
-Yale management professor, commenting on a paper proposing overnight delivery service;
the student, Fred Smith, went on to found Federal Express
15) "They couldn't hit an elepant at this dist--"
- last words of Gen. John B. Segwick, highly respected Union Commander, at the Battle of Spotsylvanian, 1864
