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Stop listening to people who tell: you are going to fail!

by warrior-of-light
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Stop listening to people who tell you: you are going to fail!

Read the following:

* '...nobody will watch a show about nothing...'
- what Jerry Seinfeld and co-creator Larry David were first told when they began to pitch Seinfeld.

* '...there's no market for it. If there were, major airlines would be offering it already...'
- conclusion given to Fred Smith, founder of FEDEX.

* '...people will rent videotapes, but they'll never buy them...'
- opinion of media 'experts' about Jane Fonda's idea to release exercise tapes.

* '...a global, twenty-four-hour news network will never work...'
- network executives' response to Ted Turner's plans for CNN.

* '...it's a cutthroat business, you've got no chance of success...'
- accountant for Estee Lauder, before the launch of the multibillion dollar cosmetics empire.

* '...you're foolish to try and sell sparkling water in the land of Coca-Cola drinkers...'
- advice given to Gustave Leven by several consulting firms when hearing of his plans to launch Perrier in the US.

* '...it's a huge risk and it will never fly...'
- aeronautical engineers evaluation of Bill Lear's design for a jet.

* '...personal computers are a hobbyist fad...'
- prediction of IBM, Intel, HP and Atari.
#fail #inspirational #listening #people #stop
  • Profile picture of the author thetruth23
    Yep, reminds me of a chinese proverb: 'Man who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the man doing it'.

    Something like that anyway.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      That's all nice and good, touchy feely, but for each one of those, there
      are 100 others.

      The Edsel, betamax, New Coke, the McDLT, the metric system (in the US),
      and the most famous one, Thomas Edison's DC, direct current for delivering electricity.

      There are many, many failures that should never have started no matter what
      people said.

      The real moral is to know when to say when and pull the plug.

      Follow your dream, but wake up before the nightmare.

      Paul
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      If you were disappointed in your results today, lower your standards tomorrow.

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      • Profile picture of the author Jonathan 2.0
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        Good thread.

        What I take from it is that even "very successful" people have been told they were going to fail. (By "experts" no less.) So it's a good reminder not to let people's negativity prevent you from succeeding.

        Here's a similar list I created some time ago.

        http://www.warriorforum.com/blogs/zi...n-achieve.html

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        "Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity."―Joseph Sugarman
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  • Profile picture of the author Gary Pettit
    Vision, when followed by persistence, tenacity, and real goals, is indeed an amazing thing. Unstoppable.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kenster
    An entepreneurial vision is normally only understood by the entrepreneur until the vision becomes a reality. The persistent entrepreneur, like all of the ones listed above, is a successful entrepreneur.

    And there's nothing better than saying I TOLD YOU SO to all the non-believers from your mansion!
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    • Profile picture of the author KEY
      I feel that people do this as they themselves are afraid
      to step outside the 'norm' for the 'gang/team/group'.

      when you (the entrepreneur) do? subconsciously they
      become opposed, as IF you succeed? you make all of them
      look lesser, foolish, uninspired...

      sadly you will find that as you journey on past being banal
      and mundane, many people will have to be left behind as
      they will do just like the OP posted "you are wasting your time,
      stop this, you could be foreman in 35 years! etc etc etc.

      the time wasted trying to convince people that trying and
      possibly failing is far better than just NOT even trying is
      better spent on the real tasks in front of you.

      KEY (eric)
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