"It always seems impossible until it's done."

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It's scary how often ideas or concepts are rejected. History is littered with examples of people who wrote off a piece of technology, or said someone wouldn't amount to anything, and later had to pull their foot from their mouth.

In fact, some predictions are so far from the mark, they're incredible. Here are eight famously-bad business predictions that made the originator eat crow later on. A lot of crow.

1. Steve Ballmer on the iPhone's Failure

"[Apple's iPhone] is the most expensive phone in the world and it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard which makes it not a very good email machine..." -Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO, uttered this famous quote in 2007, and now in 2011 the iPhone is the top smartphone vendor in the world. Business customers are buying the iPhone (and using it for email among other things).

Apple's famous touch screen also became one of the biggest selling points of the phone, proving Mr. Balmer wrong yet again.

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