As most of you know, our Quote of the Month often has serious or deliberate overtones. As a bit of a change-up, here are eight humorous quotes that were stunningly wrong! Enjoy!
“Nuclear powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality in 10 years.”
- Alex Lewyt, President of Lewyt Vacuum Cleaners, 1955
“We don’t like their sound and guitar music is on its way out.”
- Decca Records Company rejecting the Beatles, 1962
“Apple Corporation is dead.”
- Nathan Myhrvold, former CTO of Microsoft, 1997
“The computer of the future will weigh only 1.5tons.”
- Popular Mechanics,1949
“I can assure you that data processing is a fad that will not last out the year.”
- Editor of Business Books, Prentice Hall, 1957
“The automobile is only a novelty.”
- The President of Michigan Savings Bank trying to discourage Henry Ford’s lawyer from investing $5,000 in Ford Motor Company. Horace Rackham ignored the advice and turned his initial investment into $12.5 Million, 1903
“I predict the internet will catastrophically collapse.”
- Robert Metcalfe, Inventor, 1995
“Telephones will never catch on.”
- William Orton, President, Western Union, 1876
