Let’s admit it, we’ve all made mistakes. No human is perfect, but some mistakes can lead to extreme consequences. You’re looking at how things are and wonder how did this happen?
One thing is true, some mistakes remained in history as the biggest financial failures ever. One little mistake cost people billions of dollars! From investing mistakes, to literally throwing away money in the garbage, we’ve gathered some of humanity’s biggest mistakes.
New Trains Won’t Fit!
It cost French train operator SNCF $68.4 million to make over 1,000 old train stations wider because SNCF officials only measured stations that were built 30 years ago. Older train station were much narrower, and the only solution after the 2,000 new trains arrived on the lines in Paris was to widen the old train stations.
It’s not every day one simple mistake can cost a company $68.4 million!