1. (This article has been contributed by "ReadnSurf Editorial
Team". Two relevant and interesting books in this context
would be "How the Mighty Fall" by Jim Collins and "The
Innovator's Dilemma" by Clayton M. Christensen.)
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2. This is an inspiring poster available on the
net.: This is a photograph
by 'SwEeT_AnGeL_i', as posted on Flickr.
Albert Einstein remarked in 1932 that "There is not the slightest
indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable." With the
passage of time, even the world's smartest people sometimes look
like completely lost. But even in the face of our most educated
guesses going horribly wrong, all of us have an in-built propensity
to peep into future and take a call on it
So, here we present some of the prominent ones which will
intrigue you, long after you have finished reading.....
1. "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
-- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
2. "It's a bad joke that won't last. Not with winter coming."
--Coco Chanel, pioneering fashion designer on the
miniskirt, 1966
3. "Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high
plateau."
-- Irving Fisher, prominent Economist and Professor,Yale University, October 16, 1929,
some time before the Stock market crash that preceded the greatest economic
recession.
4. "It will be years -- not in my time -- before a woman will become Prime Minister."
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the-Mighty-Fall