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One of my favorite sayings: Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything. Getting people to pay for what you executed on is more everything.

If there are 1000 people who are 'idea people', 100 of them can execute on an idea; actually build something. 10 can get that thing sold.

Those 10 are the dangerous ones.

Great post.



While I agree that it is a good post, isn't it kinda obvious that if you are an idea person, can execute on that idea to make a product and also sell it, you are king of the world? I mean, you have everything except finding a way to repair your brain and body towards immortality (which I am still not quite sure if desirable)...


I agree its obvious. But the reality is a shocking number of people (990 of 1000?) never leave the building.




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