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your stupid dreams

William meeks · Thursday, October 6th 2005 at 5:39PM · 136 views
At some point in your life some told you had a stupid idea. Some once told you dont follow your dreams. And you being you listen to that other person. but now read this and never listen anyone else but yourself you genius.

all of these are actual quotes and you know what happens aftewards


"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." -- Western Union internal memo, 1876.

"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" -- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.

"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'" -- Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.

"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy." -- Drillers whom Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist in his project to drill for oil in 1859.

"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris." -- Orville Wright.

"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.

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WILLIAM W. HEMMANS III Friday, October 7th 2005 at 1:59PM

Awesome post. Many people stop dreaming, even the Bible states not to forget the days of they youth.
The cemetary is where the most unactualized potential will never be tapped.
Cures to uncurable diseases, solutions to difficult problems, books that will never be written, etc.

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