“To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” – Elbert Hubbard... So if you’re facing scathing skepticism, just keep these 3 stories in mind:
1) A German Greek Grammar teacher named Joseph Degenhart told the father of one his 7th grade students “It doesn’t matter what he does, he will never amount to anything.” That student was Albert Einstein.
2) A Management Professor at Yale told Fred Smith, a business student who wrote a paper proposing an overnight delivery service, “The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a ‘C,’ the idea must be feasible.” Smith went on to start Fedex.
3) In 1962, The Decca Recording Company turned away a band looking to put together an album, saying “We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.” That band was The Beatles.
If someone tells you what you’re doing will never work…well, it just might be one of the most incorrect statements in history.
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