Do You Feel Like Making A Prediction – - Have A Look At This

(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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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."         Read more….

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