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Page 1: The best business slideshare of 2014 for brands and entrepreneurs

15 Ways to say“Are you effin’ kidding me?”

in the most politically acceptable way possible

The Best Business Slideshare of 2014

@davidbrier

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or how to politely ask:“Who died and

made you boss?”The Best Business Slideshare of 2014

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In business,questions are necessary.

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Let’s be honest:Some are just plain stupid.

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Let’s be honest:Some are just plain stupid.

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Like,“What if it fails?”

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To which the answer is,“What if it doesn’t?”

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But sometimes,we each need a little more

ammo when shortsightedness rears its ugly head

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The next time somebody tries to shoot down your next innovation, here are 15 actual examplesof business shortsightednessyou can reference

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1.“We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.”—Decca Recording Company,

rejecting the Beatles, 1962

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2.“640K ought to be enough for anybody.”— Bill Gates, 1981

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3.“I think there is a world market for maybe !ve computers.”

—Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

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4.“Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?”— H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927

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5.“A cookie store is a bad idea.Besides, the market research reports say

America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make.”

—Response to Debbi Fields’ idea of starting Mrs. Fields’ Cookies

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6.“If I had thought about it, I wouldn’t have done the experiment. The literature

was full of examples that said ‘you can’t do this.’ ”

—Spencer Silver, on the work that led to the unique adhesives for

3-M “Post-It” Notepads

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7.“You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all of your muscles?

It can’t be done. It’s just a fact of life. You just have to accept inconsistent muscle development as an

unalterable condition of weight training.”—Response to Arthur Jones, who solved the

“unsolvable” problem by inventing Nautilus

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8.“Everything that can be invented has been invented.”

—Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. O"ce of Patents, 1899

(In 1899, there were 25,527 patents total. Today, there are over 250,000 that impact smartphones alone.)

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9.“So we went to Atari and said, ‘Hey, we’ve got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we’ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we’ll come

work for you.’ And they said, ‘No.’ So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, ‘Hey, we don’t need you.

You haven’t got through college yet.’”— Steve Jobs, on attempts to get Atari and HP

interested in his and Steve Wozniak’s personal computer

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10.“The concept is interesting andwell-formed, but in order to earn better than a ‘C,’

the idea must be feasible.”—A Yale University management professor, in response to FedEx founder Fred Smith’s paperproposing reliable overnight delivery service

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11.“The wireless music box has noimaginable commercial value. Who would payfor a message sent to nobody in particular?”

—David Sarno#’s associates, in response to his urging for investment in the radio during the 1920s

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12.“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.”

—Ken Olson, President, Chairman and Founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

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13.“This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is

inherently of no value to us.”—Western Union internal memo, 1876

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14.“But what... is it good for?”—Commenting on the microchip,

an engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968

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15.“I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked

with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that

won’t last out the year.”—The editor in charge of business books for

Prentice Hall, 1957

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The lesson?Closed minds are for the birds.

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Visit and subscribe at RisingAboveTheNoise.comFollow David Brier on twitter:@davidbrierDesign, art direction and text by David Brier of DBD International Copyright 2014 DBD International. Excerpted from a Fast Company article.

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