Below are five outdated quotations. One day, we will sound like this too if we keep tucking our tails between our legs every time a great idea comes along….

“The photograph is of no commercial value.”

-Thomas Edison, remarking on his own invention in 1880.

“There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom.”

-Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize winner in physics, 1920.

“It is an idle dream to imagine that automobiles will take the place of railways in the long distance-movement of passengers.”

-American Road Congress, 1913.

“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”

-Thomas J. Watson Sr., chairman of IBM, 1943.

“There is reason no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.”

-Ken Olsen, president of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977.

Taken from Hans Finzel, The Top Ten Mistakes Leader Make. p.82, who was quoting Joel Barker, Future Edge.