Commercializing apples like Ashmead's Kernel and Esopus Spitzenburg, prized by connoisseurs but fiendishly hard to grow, might seem as foolhardy as trying to revive the telegraph, but for Mr. Wood the allure of a profitable niche outshines the pitfalls.
For some people, that might seem as foolhardy as buying swampland in Florida.
To be sure, GE watchers argue strongly against doing anything as foolhardy as dismantling a good thing.
Investing in an independent bookstore may not be as foolhardy as it sounds.
But legal experts dismiss the entire venture as foolhardy from inception.
The whiff of commercial disaster was offputting enough, but Scorsese had gained a reputation for being just as foolhardy in his personal life.
Now that the complexion of American business is changing in freight rail's favor, Warren Buffett will get the last laugh for a purchase some labeled as foolhardy.
Forssmann's daring experiment was condemned at the time as foolhardy and dangerous, and in the face of severe criticism he abandoned cardiology for urology.
Rose, who had at first approved of his ambition, now saw it as foolhardy.
By then, even her family in the United States viewed her persistence as foolhardy.
Scientists dismissed the idea as foolhardy, predicting it would cause erosion of barrier islands.
