Who Cares What They Think?

If you have an idea, a story, a manuscript, or a product that you know has value, but someone has told you it doesn't - just keep pushing forward! Chances are, they don't know what they're talking about anyway...

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."

- Decca Records, 1962, on why they choose not to sign a new band who called themselves "The Beatles"

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"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"

- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, on why they would not make a "talkie" picture

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"Theoretically, television may be feasible, but I consider it an impossibility - a development which we should waste little time dreaming about."

- Lee de Forest, inventor of the cathode ray tube

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"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. This device is inherently of no value to us."

-Western Union, 1876