Other than “resolutions,” the other thing you see A LOT of this year is people’s “predictions” for the new year.  However, we must caution you from saying, “Oh yeah, I TOTALLY agree with that.”  Check out what once made since….now, not so much!

-“We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.” – Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962

-“Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances.” – Dr. Lee DeForest, Inventor of the TV

-“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” – Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

-“640K ought to be enough for anybody.” – Bill Gates, 1981

-“The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a ‘C,’ the idea must be feasible.” – Yale University

management professor critiquing Fred Smith’s paper proposing what became FedEx

-“Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.” – Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929

-“Everything that can be invented has been invented.” – Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

-“Louis Pasteur’s theory of germs is ridiculous fiction.” – Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872

-“If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one.” – National Cancer Institute, 1954

-“Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.” – Grover Cleveland, U.S. President in 1905

-“I’d shut [Apple] down and give the money back to the shareholders.” – Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell, Inc., 1997

-“This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.” – Western Union Internal Memo, 1876