The next time someone tries to discourage you from pursuing a new idea, relationship, project, dream, or business decision, it might be a good idea to remember these documented prognostications that were oh so wrong on a colossal scale.

"Babe Ruth made a big mistake when he gave up pitching."

Tris Speaker,  Major League baseball player, 1921

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

Ken Olson, Founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977

"The concept is interesting and well formed, but in order to earn better than a C, the idea must be feasible."

Yale University professor to Fred Smith, Founder of FedEx

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

"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
Charles H Duell, Commissioner US Office of Patents, 1899 

"We don't need you. You haven't got through college yet."
Hewlett Packard executive's response to Steve Jobs' proposal to get involved with his personal computer.

"A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, market research says that Americans likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make."
Marketing executive's response to Debbie Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..."

Union General John Sedgwick's last words before he was felled with a bullet to the head fired by a Confederate sharpshooter, 1864