A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make.
Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.
Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre. Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859. Everything that can be invented has been invented. Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899. Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.