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Air-conditioning
Forget these 'air-conditioning' experiments - they don't fit our business model...
By: Company owner to Willis Carrier |
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Hamburgers
You will never make real money selling hamburgers for 15 cents.
By: Neighbor to Ray Crock, on being asked to partner in McDonalds |
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Cookies
A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make.
By: Response to Debbi Fields |
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Direction
We know where we want to go, but right now there's no clear consensus on how to get there.
By: Jim Allchin |
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2002-03-10 11:32:37
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FedEx
The concept [Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service] is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible. Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.
By: Yale University management professor response |
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Information Technology
I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year
By: Editor of business books for Prentice Hall |
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Mail Order
Mail order companies can only usually offer the most competitive prices because they're keeping their costs low. In the computer sales business, the most expensive overhead is to train staff to know and understand the products they're selling, so mail order companies employ as few as possible.
By: Joe Sudwarts |
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Radio
The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?
By: David Sarnoff's associates |
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Atari
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.'
By: Steve Jobs |
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Computers
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
By: Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM |
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Telephone
This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.
By: Western Union internal memo |
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