| "Who wants to hear actors talk?" |
| H.M. Warner, cofounder of Warner Brothers, 1927 |
| "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." |
| Decca Recording Co., rejecting the Beatles, 1962 |
| "The wireless music box [radio] has no imaginable commercial value." |
| Said to David Sarnoff, founder of NBC |
| "This 'telephone'... is inherently of no value to us." |
| Western Union memo, 1876 |