Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.
- Michael Dell
Easy to say if you’re Michael Dell and worth over fourteen billion dollars. Not quite so easy when a boardroom full of investors are laughing after you demand that your idea is worth 90% of the company. An idea is worth nothing without execution (and vice versa). You can’t have one without the other unless you like to lose a lot of money or are really, really good at lying.