Showing posts with label failure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label failure. Show all posts

Friday, July 8, 2011

Some Predictions for the History Books

black and white photo of a mystic checking with his chrystal ball


"I'm sorry, Mr Kipling, but you just don't know how to use the English language." - The San Francisco Examiner, rejecting a submission by Rudyard Kipling in 1889.

"It doesn't matter what he does, he will never amount to anything." - Albert Einstein's teacher to his father in 1895. 

"The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty--a fad." - The president of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry Ford's lawyer, Horace Rackham, not to invest in the Ford Motor Co., 1903. 

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

"By the year 1982 the graduated income tax will have practically abolished major differences in wealth." - Irwin Edman, professor of philosophy Columbia University, 1932.

"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction." - Dick Cheney August 26, 2002.



Thursday, February 17, 2011

UH OH.





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As a 1930s wife, I am
Very Poor (Failure)