If you’re a fan of 30 Rock, you may recall the the episode where Tracy Jordan said “What is this, Horseville? Because I’m surrounded by naysayers!” Today’s quotes are devoted to epically wrong naysayers. Don’t let the man get you down.

The phonograph has no commercial value at all.
- Thomas Edison

The world potential market for copying machines is 5000 at most.
- IBM (to future founders of Xerox), in 1959.

There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.
- Albert Einstein, 1932

The cinema is little more than a fad. It’s canned drama.
- Charlie Chaplin, 1916

Television won’t last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.
- Darryl Zanuck, 20th Century Fox, 1946

Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner (co-founder of Warner Bros), 1927

Radio has no future.
- Lord Kelvin

The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to no one in particular?
- David Sarnoff , Founder of NBC